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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Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.
Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies.
One tells as few lies as possible only by telling as few lies as possible and not by having the least possible opportunity to do so.
Just think how many thoughts a blanket smothers while one lies alone in bed, and how many unhappy dreams it keeps warm.
He reflected. ‘I know a lot of different kinds of people; what I want is to show each of them how the others really are. You hear so many lies!
It would be advisable to think of progress in the crudest, most basic terms: that no one should go hungry anymore, that there should be no more torture, no more Auschwitz. Only then will the idea of progress be free from lies.
I am too much in love with my lies and hypocrisies not to confess them fervently.
