“ All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred, and schizophrenia. When the general atmosphere is bad, language must suffer. ”
George Orwell, Politics and the English Language (1946). copy citation
| Author | George Orwell |
|---|---|
| Source | Politics and the English Language |
| Topic | politics suffering |
| Date | 1946 |
| Language | English |
| Reference | in "Horizon" |
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| Weblink | http://www.orwell.ru/library/essays/politics/english/e_polit/ |
Context
“When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns as it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish spurting out ink. In our age there is no such thing as ‘keeping out of politics’. All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred, and schizophrenia. When the general atmosphere is bad, language must suffer. I should expect to find — this is a guess which I have not sufficient knowledge to verify — that the German, Russian and Italian languages have all deteriorated in the last ten or fifteen years, as a result of dictatorship.
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