This is from his essay "Politics & the English Language".
I clipped it last year but the new clip-policy now hides it from public view.
Luckily enough, we still have Kore7's clip of it.

Btw, his 6 or 12 tips for writing that are being popped on a daily basis here stem from this same essay.

There are other great quotes in it:

"Thus political language has to consist largely of euphemism., question-begging and sheer cloudy vagueness."

"Such phraseology is needed if one wants to name things without calling up mental pictures of t...

This is from his essay "Politics & the English Language".
I clipped it last year but the new clip-policy now hides it from public view.
Luckily enough, we still have Kore7's clip of it.

Btw, his 6 or 12 tips for writing that are being popped on a daily basis here stem from this same essay.

There are other great quotes in it:

"Thus political language has to consist largely of euphemism., question-begging and sheer cloudy vagueness."

"Such phraseology is needed if one wants to name things without calling up mental pictures of them."

"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"

"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."

Though it was written in 1946, it's still frighteningly actual.