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.
George OrwellThe existence of good bad literatureโthe fact that one can be amused or excited or even moved by a book that one's intellect simply refuses to take seriouslyโis a reminder that art is not the same thing as cerebration.
George OrwellThe ruling power is always faced with the question, โIn such and such circumstances, what would you do?โ, whereas the opposition is not obliged to take responsibility or make any real decisions.
George Orwell