Ekland
05-05-2005, 16:11
What do these quotes by George Orwell mean to you?
"No advance in wealth, no softening of manners, no reform or revolution has ever brought human equality a millimeter nearer."
"One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes a revolution in order to establish a dictatorship."
"Society has always seemed to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice."
"The Catholic and the Communist are alike in assuming that an opponent cannot be both honest and intelligent."
"The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns, as it were, instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink. "
Discuss?
"No advance in wealth, no softening of manners, no reform or revolution has ever brought human equality a millimeter nearer."
"One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes a revolution in order to establish a dictatorship."
"Society has always seemed to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice."
"The Catholic and the Communist are alike in assuming that an opponent cannot be both honest and intelligent."
"The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns, as it were, instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink. "
Discuss?