"The great enemy of clear language is..." - Quote by George Orwell
The great enemy of clear language is insincerity.
More by George Orwell
“Since pacifists have more freedom of action in countries where traces of democracy survive, pacifism can act more effectively against democracy than for it. Objectively the pacifist is pro-Nazi.”
“Totalitarianism, however, does not so much promise an age of faith as an age of schizophrenia. A society becomes totalitarian when its structure becomes flagrantly artificial: that is, when its ruling class has lost its function but succeeds in clinging to power by force or fraud. Such a society, no matter how long it persists, can never afford to become either tolerant or intellectually stable.”
“The most stirring battle-poem in English is about a brigade of cavalry which charged in the wrong direction.”
More on Language
“Normally, people believe that, if they hear just words, that these words must lead to some thought.”
“And people get all fouled up because they want the world to have meaning as if it were words... As if you had a meaning, as if you were a mere word, as if you were something that could be looked up in a dictionary. You are meaning.”
“It is easier for a cannibal to enter the Kingdom of Heaven through the eye of a rich man's needle that it is for any other foreigner to read the terrible German script.”
More on Sincerity
“The Two Most Important Words In The World Are Honesty And Sincerity, If You Can Fake These You've Got It Made.”
“In ancient times, those who wished to illuminate the world with virtue first brought order to their nations. Wishing to order well their nations, they first harmonized their families. Wishing to harmonize their families, they first cultivated themselves. Wishing to cultivate themselves, they first rectified their minds. Those who wished to rectify their minds first made their intentions sincere.”
“I love thee, and it is my love that speaks”