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Essay (1946-04), "Politics and the English Language," Horizon Magazine - Orwell, George | WIST Quotations Quotations

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Political language -- and with variations this is true of all political parties, from Conservatives to Anarchists -- is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.

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Letter (1903-04-13) to Lucy Donnelly - Russell, Bertrand | WIST Quotations Quotations

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Wherever one finds oneself inclined to bitterness, it is a sign of emotional failure: a larger heart, and a greater self-restraint, would put a calm autumnal sadness in the place of the instinctive outcry of pain. Collected in his Autobiography, Vol. 1: 1872-1914, ch. 6 "'Principia Mathematica'" (1967).

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Essays, Book 1, ch. 23 "On Custom and Not Easily Changing an Accepted Law [De la Coustume et de Ne Changer Aisément une Loy Receüe]" (1572) (1.23) (1595) [tr. Screech (1987)] - Montaigne, Michel de | WIST Quotations Quotations

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We should note that games are not games for children but are to be judged as the most serious things they do. [De vray il faut noter, que les jeux des enfants ne sont pas jeux: & les faut juger en eux, comme leurs plus serieuses actions.] (Source (French)). Alternate…

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Essay (1849-05), "Resistance to Civil Government [On the Duty of Civil Disobedience]," Æsthetic Papers, No. 1, Article 10 - Thoreau, Henry David | WIST Quotations Quotations

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Law never made men a whit more just; and, by means of their respect for it, even the well-disposed are daily made the agents of injustice. A common and natural result of an undue respect for the law is, that you may see a file of soldiers, colonel, captain, corporal,…

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