Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App

" But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought. "

Related Quotes:

" One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes a revolution in order to establish a dictatorship. "

" Prolonged, indiscriminate reviewing of books is a quite exceptionally thankless, irritating and exhausting job. It not only involves praising trash but constantly inventing reactions towards books about which one has no spontaneous feeling whatever. "

" Liberal: a power worshipper without power. "

" It is almost universally felt that when we call a country democratic we are praising it; consequently, the defenders of every kind of regime claim that it is a democracy, and fear that they might have to stop using the word if it were tied down to any one meaning. "

" A tragic situation exists precisely when virtue does not triumph but when it is still felt that man is nobler than the forces which destroy him. "

" Men are only as good as their technical development allows them to be. "

" We may find in the long run that tinned food is a deadlier weapon than the machine-gun. "

" Joyce is a poet and also an elephantine pedant. "

" Whatever is funny is subversive, every joke is ultimately a custard pie... a dirty joke is a sort of mental rebellion. "

" Early in life I had noticed that no event is ever correctly reported in a newspaper. "

" Four legs good, two legs bad. "

" We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men. "

" The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, but he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them. "

" Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility. "

" The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. 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 squirting out ink. "

" Good writing is like a windowpane. "

" Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them. "

" Probably the battle of Waterloo was won on the playing-fields of Eton, but the opening battles of all subsequent wars have been lost there. "

" What can you do against the lunatic who is more intelligent than yourself, who gives your arguments a fair hearing and then simply persists in his lunacy? "

" If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear. "

" Language ought to be the joint creation of poets and manual workers. "

" Society has always to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice. "

" No one can look back on his schooldays and say with truth that they were altogether unhappy. "

" Most people get a fair amount of fun out of their lives, but on balance life is suffering, and only the very young or the very foolish imagine otherwise. "

" Part of the reason for the ugliness of adults, in a child's eyes, is that the child is usually looking upwards, and few faces are at their best when seen from below. "

" The Catholic and the Communist are alike in assuming that an opponent cannot be both honest and intelligent. "

" Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac. "

" The best books... are those that tell you what you know already. "

" The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection. "

" The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labor. "