George Orwell Quotes About Power

Quotes about: Power

• We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it.

  George Orwell

  Power, Intention, 1984 Important

  George Orwell, A.M. Heath (2003). “Animal Farm and 1984”, p.354, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception.

  George Orwell

  Power, Self, Deception

  George Orwell (2005). “In defence of English cooking”, Penguin Hardcover

• Power-worship blurs political judgment because it leads, almost unavoidably, to the belief that present trends will continue. Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.

  George Orwell

  War, Winning, Power

  George Orwell, Ian Angus, Sheila Davison (1998). “The Complete Works of George Orwell: Smothered under journalism, 1946”

• The object of power is power.

  George Orwell

  Power, Objects

  Nineteen Eighty-Four pt. 3, ch. 3 (1949)

• But the thing that I saw in your face no power can disinherit: No bomb that ever burst shatters the crystal spirit.

  George Orwell

  Power, Bombs, Faces

  George Orwell (1987). “The complete works of George Orwell: Animal farm”

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