All GEORGE BERNARD SHAW Quotes about “Country”

“Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.”
“England and America are two countries separated by the same language.”
“Such poverty as we have today in all our great cities degrades the poor, and infects with its degradation the whole neighborhood in which they live. And whatever can degrade a neighborhood can degrade a country and a continent and finally the whole civilized world, which is only a large neighborhood.”
“An American has no sense of privacy. He does not know what it means.There is no such thing in the country.”
“Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family. But here again, because there is nothing to sell, there is a very general disposition to regard a married woman's work as no work at all, and to take it as a matter of course that she should not be paid for it.”
“You are all alike, you respectable people. You can't tell me the bursting strain of a ten-inch gun, which is a very simple matter;but you all think you can tell me the bursting strain of a man under temptation. You daren't handle high explosives; but you're all ready to handle honesty and truth and justice and the whole duty of man, and kill one another at that game. What a country! What a world!”
“Live in contact with dreams and you will get something of their charm: live in contact with facts and you will get something of their brutality. I wish I could find a country to live in where the facts were not brutal and the dreams not real.”
“A modern gentleman [rich person] is necessarily the enemy of his country. Even in war he does not fight to defend it, but to prevent his power of preying on it from passing to a foreigner.”
“What is wrong with the prosaic Englishman is what is wrong with the prosaic men of all countries: stupidity.”
“O Lord! I don't know which is the worst of the country, the walking or the sitting at home with nothing to do.”
“Hollywood keeps before its child audiences a string of glorified young heroes, everyone of whom is an unhesitating and violent Anarchist. His one answer to everything that annoys him or disparages his country or his parents or his young lady or his personal code of manly conduct is to give the offender a "sock" in the jaw.... My observation leads me to believe that it is not the virtuous people who are good at socking jaws.”
“Journalists are too poorly paid in this country to know anything that is fit for publication.”
“Financiers live in a world of illusion. They count on something which they call the capital of the country, which has no existence.”

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