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Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception. ↗

— George Orwell

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Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. ↗

— George Orwell

#does #end #establish #makes #means

The atom bombs are piling up in the factories, the police are prowling through the cities, the lies are streaming from the loudspeakers, but the earth is still going round the sun. ↗

— George Orwell

#bombs #cities #earth #factories #going

A family with the wrong members in control; that, perhaps, is as near as one can come to describing England in a phrase. ↗

— George Orwell

#control #describing #england #family #members

Society has always seemed to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice. ↗

— George Orwell

#always #beings #demand #get #human

For a creative writer possession of the 'truth' is less important than emotional sincerity. ↗

— George Orwell

#emotional #important #less #possession #sincerity

Mankind is not likely to salvage civilization unless he can evolve a system of good and evil which is independent of heaven and hell. ↗

— George Orwell

#evil #evolve #good #good and evil #heaven

The Catholic and the Communist are alike in assuming that an opponent cannot be both honest and intelligent. ↗

— George Orwell

#assuming #both #cannot #catholic #communist

Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible. ↗

— George Orwell

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Many people genuinely do not want to be saints, and it is probable that some who achieve or aspire to sainthood have never felt much temptation to be human beings. ↗

— George Orwell

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