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

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

Other quotes by George Orwell

Whatever is funny is subversive, every joke is ultimately a custard pie… a dirty joke is a sort of mental rebellion. – George Orwell

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funny
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The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between ones real and ones declared aims, one turns, as it were, instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink. – George Orwell

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great
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The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labor. – George Orwell

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War
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power
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When you live under the power of terror and segregation, you cant ever start a work of art. – Jeanne Moreau

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power

Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time. – Richard Dawkins

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power

The principles of a free constitution are irrecoverably lost, when the legislative power is nominated by the executive. – Edward Gibbon

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power

Power has only one duty – to secure the social welfare of the People. – Benjamin Disraeli

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power

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Like me, the great majority of Americans wish both to preserve the traditional definition of marriage and to oppose bias and intolerance directed towards gays and lesbians. – Mitt Romney

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Historians are themselves products of history. – Paul K. Conkin and Roland N. Stromberg, Heritage and Challenge

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History

I realize that patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness towards anyone. – Edith Cavell

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Patriotism

The trouble with doing something right the first time is that nobody appreciates how difficult it was. – Author unknown, but probably a secretary!

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