George Orwell — "I have a sort of belly-to-earth attitude and always have had."

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

"Circus dogs jump when the trainer cracks his whip, but the really well-trained dog is the one that turns somersaults when there is no whip."

"Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it."

"Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind."

"The English are not good at thinking, but they are good at feeling."