"Political chaos is connected with the decay..." - Quote by George Orwell
Political chaos is connected with the decay of language... one can probably bring about some improvement by starting at the verbal end.
More by George Orwell
“I often wondered whether any of the others grasped that I had done it solely to avoid looking a fool.”
“She was very young...she still expected something from life, she did not understand that to push an inconvenient person over a cliff solves nothing.”
“Man serves the interests of no creature except himself.”
More on Language
“We are being at once wisely aware of our own frivolity if we avoid hitting and whacking and prefer 'striking' and 'smiting'; talk and chat and prefer 'speech' and 'discourse'; well-bred, brilliant, or polite noblemen (visions of snobbery columns in the Press, and fat men on the Riviera) and prefer the 'worthy, brave and courteous men' of long ago.”
“People remember Longfellow wrote Hiawatha, quite forget he was a Professor of Modern Languages!”
“Negative things you tell yourself are inCANTations, turn them into inCANtations.”
More on Politics
“This man [ Donald Trump] won in an electoral landslide.”
“If voting made any difference they wouldn't let us do it.”
“I think Donald Trump is going to try as best he can to make sure that he delivers not only to the people who voted for him but for the people at large and the good thing is that there are going to be elections coming up so there's a built-in incentive for him to try to do that.”