“Nationalism is power-hunger tempered by self-deception.”
George Orwell (1903–1950) English author and journalist
Notes on Nationalism (1945)
“Sometimes I think we Americans are the loneliest people in the world. To be sure, we hunger for the power of affection, the self-acceptance that gives life. It is the oldest and strongest hunger in the world. But hungering is not enough.”
Source: Memoirs (1942), p. 6
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