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Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception. - George O

Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception. – George Orwell

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It is also true that one can write nothing readable unless one constantly struggles to efface ones own personality. Good prose is like a windowpane. – George Orwell

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He was an embittered atheist, the sort of atheist who does not so much disbelieve in God as personally dislike Him. – George Orwell

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Power is domination, control, and therefore a very selective form of truth which is a lie. – Wole Soyinka

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Never forget that the most powerful force on earth is love. – Nelson Rockefeller

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The intellectual tradition is one of servility to power, and if I didnt betray it Id be ashamed of myself. – Noam Chomsky

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Power without abuse loses its charm. – Paul Valery

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Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force. – George Bernard Shaw

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Prudence operates on life in the same manner as rule of composition; it produces vigilance rather than elevation; rather prevents loss than procures advantage; and often miscarriages, but seldom reaches either power or honor. – Samuel Johnson

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Fear created the first gods in the world. – Caecilius Statius

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I mean, when you get down to very low numbers of nuclear weapons, and you contemplate going to zero, how do you deal with the reality of that technology being available to almost any country that seeks to pursue it? And what conditions do you put in place? – Robert M. Gates

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