"If people cannot write well, they cannot think well, and if they cannot think well, others will do their thinking for them."
— George Orwell

January 1, 1970

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George Orwell
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Attributed to Orwell by John H. Bunzel, president of San Jose State University, as reported in Phyllis Schlafly, The Power of the Positive Woman (1977), p. 151; but not found in Orwell's works or in reports contemporaneous with his life. Possibly a paraphrase of Orwell's description of the rationale behind Newspeak in 1984.