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In nationalist thought there are facts which are both true and untrue, known and unknown. A known fact may be so unbearable that it is habitually pushed aside and not allowed to enter into logical processes, or on the other hand it may enter into every calculation and yet never be admitted as a fact, even in one’s own mind.

George Orwell (1903-1950) English journalist, essayist, writer [pseud. of Eric Arthur Blair]
Essay (1945-05), “Notes on Nationalism,” Polemic Magazine (1945-10)

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Orwell, George - Essay (1945-05), "Notes on Nationalism," Polemic Magazine (1945-10) | WIST Quotations

In nationalist thought there are facts which are both true and untrue, known and unknown. A known fact may be so unbearable that it is habitually pushed aside and not allowed to enter into logical processes, or on the other hand it may enter into every calculation and yet never…

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Theatre Wilde & Vogel 14h ago

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Hacker News 19h ago

Why I Write by George Orwell

https://www.orwellfoundation.com/the-orwell-foundation/orwell/essays-and-other-works/why-i-write/

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Why I Write | The Orwell Foundation

"What I have most wanted to do throughout the past ten years is to make political writing into an art. My starting point is always a feeling of partisanship, a sense of injustice."

The Orwell Foundation

Grenhas Valhalla 1d ago

#literatura #política #represion #literaturabritanica
#GeorgeOrwell ✒️📖✒️
«La desigualdad era el precio de la civilización.»

The Fisch 3d ago

Der Versificator
ist eine fiktive Maschine aus George Orwells Roman 1984, die in der Musikabteilung des Wahrheitsministeriums eingesetzt wird. Das Gerät erstellt maschinell Schlager, Romane und andere Trivialliteratur ohne jedes menschliche kreative Zutun. Diese Inhalte dienen ausschließlich dazu, die Proles (die Unterschicht) bei Laune zu halten und politisch passiv zu halten.

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John Yates 4d ago

#ConvictedFelonTrump erases the facts! Hello "1984" by #GeorgeOrwell ! https://is.gd/We49ar A must read! #Indivisible #Politics

Wisdom in Space 5d ago

In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
-- George Orwell

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Luke Trevorrow 6d ago

Another book haul from the charity shop. Three books acquired: Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell; Moonraker by Ian Fleming; and something of a chance read - The Enchanted Night by Miklós Bánffy (no idea what this will be like, but thought I’d try it out). #bookhaul #charityshop #georgeorwell #nineteeneightyfour #ianfleming #moonraker #miklosbanffy #theenchantednight #bookstodon #books

WIST Quotations Apr 17

A quotation from Orwell

History is thought of largely in nationalist terms, and such things as the Inquisition, the tortures of the Star Chamber, the exploits of the English buccaneers (Sir Francis Drake, for instance, who was given to sinking Spanish prisoners alive), the Reign of Terror, the heroes of the Mutiny blowing hundreds of Indians from the guns, or Cromwell’s soldiers slashing Irishwomen’s faces with razors, become morally neutral or even meritorious when it is felt that they were done in the “right” cause. If one looks back over the past quarter of a century, one finds that there was hardly a single year when atrocity stories were not being reported from some part of the world; and yet in not one single case were these atrocities — in Spain, Russia, China, Hungary, Mexico, Amritsar, Smyrna — believed in and disapproved of by the English intelligentsia as a whole. Whether such deeds were reprehensible, or even whether they happened, was always decided according to political predilection.

George Orwell (1903-1950) English journalist, essayist, writer [pseud. of Eric Arthur Blair]
Essay (1945-05), “Notes on Nationalism,” Polemic Magazine (1945-10)

More about this quote: wist.info/orwell-george/46140/

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Orwell, George - Essay (1945-05), "Notes on Nationalism," Polemic Magazine (1945-10) | WIST Quotations

History is thought of largely in nationalist terms, and such things as the Inquisition, the tortures of the Star Chamber, the exploits of the English buccaneers (Sir Francis Drake, for instance, who was given to sinking Spanish prisoners alive), the Reign of Terror, the heroes of the Mutiny blowing hundreds…

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