Political Writing Quotes

• I generalized rashly: That is what kills political writing, this absurd pretence that you are delivering a great utterance. You never do. You are just a puzzled man making notes about what you think. You are not building the Pantheon, then why act like a graven image? You are drawing sketches in the sand which the sea will wash away.

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  Walter Lippmann

  Writing   Men   Thinking  

  Walter Lippmann “Force and Ideas: The Early Writings”, Transaction Publishers

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• Political writing in our time consists almost entirely of prefabricated phrases bolted together like the pieces of a child's Meccano set. It is the unavoidable result of self-censorship. To write in plain, vigorous language one has to think fearlessly, and if one thinks fearlessly one cannot be politically orthodox.

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  George Orwell

  Children   Writing   Thinking  

  George Orwell (1986). “The complete works of George Orwell”

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• In our time political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible.

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  George Orwell

  Time   Writing   Political Language  

  George Orwell (1956). “The Orwell Reader: Fiction, Essays, and Reportage”, New York : Harcourt, Brace

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• I read all the time so it's difficult to say who my all-time favourites are. One is George Orwell, because he makes political writing so simple a child could understand it.

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  Melvin Burgess

  Children   Writing   Simple  

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• I love Mikhail Bulgakov. He is very original and takes the story to unexpected places. I didn't realise political writing could be so funny.

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  Denise Mina

  Writing   Political   Stories  

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• One difference with the political writings, whether about feminism or class, is that the intent is to change how people think of a certain political reality; whereas with cultural criticism, the goal is to illuminate something that is already there.

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  Bell Hooks

  Writing   Thinking   Reality  

  "How Do You Practice Intersectionalism? An Interview with bell hooks". Interview with Randy Lowens, nefac.net. March 15, 2012.

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• Writing about a war will always be political writing, no matter what amount of hermetical hide-and-seek or aesthetical operations are involved.

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  Sasa Stanisic

  War   Writing   Political  

  "The Rumpus International Rivers Interview #3: Sasa Stanisic On The Danube". Interview with Michael Zelenko, therumpus.net. January 25, 2010.

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• The assertion of failure coming from such persons does not mean that Mr. Mill failed to promote the practical success of those objects the advocacy of which forms the chief feature of his political writings.

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  Millicent Fawcett

  Writing   Mean   Political  

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• Virtue is the habit of acting according to wisdom. GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZ, "Felicity", Leibniz: Political Writings Virtue is harder to be got than knowledge of the world; and, if lost in a young man, is seldom recovered. JOHN LOCKE, Some Thoughts Concerning Education However wicked men may be, they do not dare openly to appear the enemies of virtue, and when they desire to persecute her they either pretend to believe her false or attribute crimes to her.

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  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Believe   Writing   Men  

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• [On her political writings:] It is, I confess, very possible that these my Labours may only be destined to line Trunks, or preserve roast Meat from too fierce a Fire; yet in that Shape I shall be useful to my Country.

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  Mary Wortley Montagu

  Country   Writing   Fire  

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