George Bernard Shaw: Patriotism is, fundamentally, a conviction that a particular country is the best in the world because you were born in i

Patriotism is, fundamentally, a conviction that a particular country is the best — George Bernard Shaw

Patriotism is, fundamentally, a conviction that a particular country is the best in the world because you were born in it...

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The best brought-up children are those who have seen their parents as they are. — George Bernard Shaw
Beware of the man whose god is in the skies. — George Bernard Shaw
What really flatters a man is that you think him worth flattering. — George Bernard Shaw
I ask you, what am I? I'm one of the undeserving poor: thats what I am. Think of — George Bernard Shaw
“蘇聯是無產階級專政的，智識階級就要餓死。”……位有名的記者曾經這樣警告我。是的，這倒恐怕要使我也有些睡不著了。但無產階級專政，不是為了將來的無階級社會麼？只要 — Lu Xun
Government is violence, Christianity is meekness, non-resistance, love. And, the — Leo Tolstoy
The Autocrat of all the Russias will resign his crown, and proclaim his subjects — Abraham Lincoln
Aristocracy is the spirit of the Old Testament , democracy of the New . — Napoleon
A thing is, according to the mode in which one looks at it. — Oscar Wilde
Everything tires. Even the image , which is so helpful, ends up tiring. A style — Jules Renard
Thinking is an experimental dealing with small quantities of energy, just as a g — Sigmund Freud
The weakest man is the one who is able to correct his moral defects, but doesn't — Alī ibn Abī Ṭālib