George Orwell Quote

"In our time, political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible. Things like the continuance of British rule in India, the Russian purges and deportations, the dropping of the atom bombs on Japan, can indeed be defended, but only by arguments which are too brutal for most people to face, and which do not square with the professed aims of the political parties. Thus political language has to consist largely of euphemism, question-begging and sheer cloudy vagueness. Defenseless villages are bombarded from the air, the inhabitants driven out into the countryside, the cattle machine-gunned, the huts set on fire with incendiary bullets: this is called pacification."

by:	George Orwell [Eric Arthur Blair] (1903-1950) British author
Source:	Politics and the English Language, 1946
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The defense of the indefensible grows with man's expanded inhumanity to man (such as through drone attacks).  -- Mike, Norwalk
exactly!  -- Al, DC
-- jim k, Austin, Tx

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