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As nothing in the universe is stationary, ruling classes have their rise, culmination, and decline, and I conjecture that this class attained to its acme of popularity and power,
“In love it does not matter what you say, but what you feel. In poetry it does not matter what you feel, but what you say.”
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“Some nationalists are not far from schizophrenia, living quite happily amid dreams of power and conquest which have no connexion with the physical world.”
― Notes on Nationalism
― Notes on Nationalism
“Sojuga a fria Sintra o duro braço;”
― Os Lusíadas
― Os Lusíadas
“Who was really to blame for the Bengal famine? Probably the truth is discoverable, but the facts will be so dishonestly set forth in almost any newspaper that the ordinary reader can be forgiven either for swallowing lies or failing to form an opinion. The general uncertainty as to what is really happening makes it easier to cling to lunatic beliefs.”
― Notes on Nationalism
― Notes on Nationalism
“Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception. Every nationalist is capable of the most flagrant dishonesty, but he is also – since he is conscious of serving something bigger than himself – unshakeably certain of being in the right.”
― Notes on Nationalism
― Notes on Nationalism
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