What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.
George Bernard ShawRead
You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
Interpretation
Patriotism can often lead to conflict and disruption in the world.
In this quote, George Bernard Shaw suggests that true peace and a quiet world cannot be achieved as long as strong nationalistic feelings, or patriotism, prevail among people. He posits that these feelings can incite divisions, conflicts, and hostilities, indicating that a shift in human values may be necessary for a more harmonious existence.
In practice
In a speech advocating for global unity, one could quote Shaw to emphasize the need for overcoming nationalism.
What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.
Marriage is good enough for the lower classes: they have facilities for desertion that are denied to us.
Forgive him, for he believes that the customs of his tribe are the laws of nature!
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Treat a friend as a person who may someday become your enemy; an enemy as a person who may someday become your friend.
The happiness of credulity is a cheap and dangerous quality.
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Life has meaning only if one barters it day by day for something other than itself.
What will die with me the day I die? What pathetic or frail image will be lost to the world? The voice of Macedonio Fernandez, the image of a bay horse in a vacant lot on the corner of Sarrano and Charcas, a bar of sulfur in the drawer of a mahogany desk?
And what is liberty, whose very name makes the heart beat faster and shakes the world? Is it not the union of all liberties - liberty of conscience, of education, of association, of the press, of travel, or labor, or trade?
Romance and novel paint beauty in colors more charming than nature, and describe a happiness that humans never taste. How deceptive and destructive are those pictures of consummate bliss!
I have always knocked at the door of that wonderful and terrible enigma which is life.
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