“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 Orwell
“All opinions are credible, but some opinions are more credible than others. Credible, in the second context, meaning probable and reasonable.”
Yosola Olaleye
“During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act”
“We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm.”
“Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear”
“In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of politics.' All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia.”
“In the great line of Crane, Orwell and Hemingway.”
Ward Just
