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George Bernard Shaw on Veterans Day

1856–1950 Ireland

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

O'Flaherty V.C (1919)

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

A soldier is an anachronism of which we must get rid.

When the military man approaches, the world locks up its spoons and packs off its womankind.

In the arts of life man invents nothing; but in the arts of death he outdoes Nature herself, and produces by chemistry and machinery all the slaughter of plague, pestilence and famine.

Man and Superman. Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922)

There was only one virtue, pugnacity; only one vice, pacifism. That is an essential condition of war.

All progress means war with Society.

Getting Married (1908)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: George Bernard Shaw (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.