“Language matters because whoever controls the words controls the conversation, because whoever controls the conversation controls its outcome, because whoever frames the debate has already won it, because telling the truth has become harder and harder to achieve in an America drowning in Orwellian Newspeak.” MatterAmericaPoliticsLanguageAchieveConversationHarderDebateOutcomesTelling The TruthDrowningOrwellianAlready Won Book:Seducing the Demon: Writing for My Life Source: Seducing the Demon: Writing for My Life
“If the Irish programme did not insist on the Irish language I suppose I could call myself a nationalist. As it is, I am content torecognize myself an exile: and, prophetically, a repudiated one.” IfsPoliticsLanguageNationalismExileProgrammes Author:James Joyce
“When hot dogs like Mr. D'Amato or the Republican apologist Roger Ailes say that Whitewater is worse than Watergate, it's because they're suffering from a disease. It's called bull-imia, and it's the regurgitation of patent hyperbole.” SufferingPoliticsLanguageDogRepublicanDiseaseHotBullsRogerPatentsHot DogWatergateHyperbole Author:Anna Quindlen
“You can't treat Russia like a guilty schoolboy who has to put a cross on a piece of paper to show he has done his homework. That kind of language is unacceptable.” KindDoneShowsPoliticsLanguageLeadershipJusticeEducationPiecesPolicyPaperEthicsCrossesTreatsTradeStrategyRussiaGuiltyIdeologyForeign PolicyDiplomacyCivilityHomework Author:Dmitry Peskov
“Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.” GivingWarTruthPoliticalLyingPoliticsLanguagePeaceSoundWindPoliticianPureMurderWittyAppearanceThriveTruthfulPolitical PartiesRespectableMaking PeacePeace And JusticePeace JusticeBeing TruthfulMake Peace Not WarCitizenryPolitical WillSolidityKnowledge And PowerPoliticians And PoliticsLanguage WordsPolitical LanguageAnti PoliticalBest PoliticalFalse Appearances Author:George Orwell