George Bernard Shaw Quotes About Nationalism

• Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Funny, Wisdom, Country

• You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Peace, Patriotic, Race

  'O'Flaherty V.C.' (1919) p. 178

• Put an Irishman on the spit and you can always get another Irishman to turn him.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Ireland And The Irish, Spit, Turns

• Nationalism must now be added to the refuse pile of superstitions. We are now citizens of the world, and the man who divides the race into elect Irishmen and reprobate foreign devils (especially Englishmen) had better live on the Blaskets where he can admire himself without disturbance.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Men, Race, Devil

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