Orwell

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    Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception.
    —George Orwell (1903–1950)

    To a surprising extent the war-lords in shining armour, the apostles of the martial virtues, tend not to die fighting when the time comes. History is full of ignominious getaways by the great and famous.
    —George Orwell (1903–1950)

    The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one’s real and one’s declared aims, one turns as it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink.
    —George Orwell (1903–1950)