Political Language Quotes

Political Language Quote of the day

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

The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, but he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them.

He who controls the past controls the future.

In our time political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible.

All language is political.

As a poet, there is only one political duty, and that is to defend one's language from corruption.

The first problem of the media is posed by what does not get translated, or even published in the dominant political languages.

Political chaos is connected with the decay of language... one can probably bring about some improvement by starting at the verbal end.

[Political] prose consists less and less of words chosen for the sake of their meaning, and more and more of phrases tacked together like the sections of a prefabricated hen-house.

The word right should be excluded from political language, as the word cause from the language of philosophy.

The Bible doesn't speak of "women's rights" in the social-political language we're used to hearing today. Still, that doesn't mean the Bible is silent on the subject.

If we had had the right technology back then, you would have seen Eva Braun on the Donahue show and Adolf Hitler on Meet the Press.

I'm very political without being political. I don't know how to speak proper political language.

Language usage always has a political context.

The best propaganda omits rather than invents

What is above all needed is to let the meaning choose the word, and not the other way around. In prose, the worst thing you can do with words is to surrender to them.