Quote by George Orwell: “Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable.”

Official and political language often uses vague, elevated, or technical words to sanitise actions that are brutal or dishonest. Orwell's point is that language is not neutral — it can be deliberately engineered to prevent critical thinking and hide what is really happening.

Orwell wrote 'Politics and the English Language' in 1946, one year after the end of World War II. Having witnessed fascist propaganda, Stalinist euphemism, and wartime doublespeak, he was acutely aware of how political language had been used across ideologies to obscure atrocities.

English novelist and essayist best known for his political works Nineteen Eighty-Four and Animal Farm, which examined totalitarianism, propaganda, and the corruption of language. His 1946 essay 'Politics and the English Language' remains a foundational text in political writing and journalism.