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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

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

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Time
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We may find in the long run that tinned food is a deadlier weapon than the machine-gun. – George Orwell

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Food
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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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If you think of paying court to the men in power, your eternal ruin is assured. – Stendhal

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In the power of fixing the attention lies the most precious of the intellectual habits. – Robert Hall

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power

No man deserves to be praised for his goodness, who has it not in his power to be wicked. Goodness without that power is generally nothing more than sloth, or an impotence of will. – Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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The power to question is the basis of all human progress. – Indira Gandhi

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