Being true Quote by George Orwell

If one harbours anywhere in one's mind a nationalistic loyalty or hatred, certain facts, although in a sense known to be true, are inadmissible.

— George Orwell

“The knowledge of certain principles easily compensates the lack of knowledge of certain facts.”

— Claude Adrien Helvétius

“Maybe it's just that some of us have had certain facts and truths slapped up against our heads so hard and so often that…

— Ralph Ellison in Juneteenth

History is a matter of interpretation, but you have to start with certain facts.

— Peter Kuznick

All nationalistic distinctions - all claims to be better than somebody else because you have a different-shaped skull or speak a different dialect -…

— George Orwell

If we were to make no better use of victory than to countenance existing trends in this direction, only too visible before 1939, we…

— Friedrich August von Hayek

Conservatism, though a necessary element in any stable society, is not a social program; in its paternalistic, nationalistic and power adoring tendencies it is…

— Friedrich August von Hayek

The view of the Earth from the Moon fascinated me -- a small disk, 240,000 miles away. . . . Raging nationalistic interests, famines,…

— Frank Borman

The people of America are red, white, black, yellow, and all the shades in between. Their eyes are blue, black, and brown, and all…

— Saul Alinsky

I remember when the Cold War ended, how quickly the United States was swept by a nationalistic fervor and turned against Saddam Hussein. As…

— Connie Zweig

I don't feel like I have to be nationalistic French because I'm afraid of losing whatever. No, no, no, no. And also I don't…

— Jean Reno

“Goethe had long since remarked that nationalistic feelings ‘are at their strongest and most violent where there is the lowest degree of culture’.”

— A.C. Grayling