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Political Language Quotes

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

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

The first problem of the media is posed by what does not get translated, or even published in the dominant political languages.

Jacques Derrida (1995). “Points . .: Interviews, 1974-1994”, p.87, Stanford University Press

The word right should be excluded from political language, as the word cause from the language of philosophy.

Auguste Comte, John Henry Bridges (1865). “A General View of Positivism”, p.383, London, Trübner and Company