From Orwell's "Notes on Nationalism" Indifference to Reality - All nationalists have the power of not seeing resemblances between similar sets of facts. ... Ac

From Orwell's "Notes on Nationalism" Indifference to Reality - All nationalists have the power of not seeing resemblances between similar sets of facts. ... Actions are held to be good or bad, not on their own merits, but according to who does them, and there is almost no kind of outrage – torture, the use of hostages, forced labour, mass deportations, imprisonment without trial, forgery, assassination, the bombing of civilians – which does not change its moral colour when it is committed by ‘our’ side.