Sanity was statistical. It was merely a question of learning to think as they thought. - George Orwell

The stars are a free show; it don’t cost anything to use your eyes

Let a politician die, and his worst enemies will stand up on the floor of the House and utter pious lies in his honour, but a writer or artist must be sniffed at, at least if he is any good.

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.