George Orwell: differenze tra le versioni
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*Un uomo può iniziare a bere perché si sente un fallito, e poi diventarlo ancora più completamente perché beve. È grosso modo la stessa cosa che sta accadendo alla lingua inglese. Essa diventa sgradevole e imprecisa poiché i nostri pensieri sono sciocchi, ma la trascuratezza della nostra lingua favorisce a sua volta la tendenza ad avere sciocchi pensieri.
:''A man may take to drink because he feels himself to be a failure, and then fail all the more completely because he drinks. It is rather the same thing that is happening to the English language. It becomes ugly and inaccurate because our thoughts are foolish, but the slovenliness of our language makes it easier to have foolish thoughts.''<ref>{{en}} Da ''Politics and the English Language''; citato in Richard Joseph Voorhees, ''The Paradox of George Orwell'', Purdue University Press, 1986, [https://books.google.it/books?id=vMv1MXB7mK4C&pg=PA55#v=onepage&q&f=false p. 55]. ISBN 0-911198-80-6</ref>
*Parole quali "democrazia, socialismo, libertà, patriottico,
:''The words democracy, socialism, freedom, patriotic, realistic, justice have each of them several different meanings which cannot be reconciled with one another. In the case of a word like democracy, not only is there no agreed definition, but the attempt to make one is resisted from all sides. 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 that word if it were tied down to any one meaning. Words of this kind are often used in a consciously dishonest way. That is, the person who uses them has his own private definition, but allows his hearer to think he means something quite different.''<ref>{{en}} Da ''Politics and the English Language'', 1946, [https://www.amazon.com/Politics-English-Language-Penguin-Classics/dp/0141393068] ISBN-13: 978-0141393063</ref>
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