George Bernard Shaw Quotes

Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.

George Bernard Shaw

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• Why should people go out and pay money to see bad films when they can stay at home and see bad television for nothing?

  

  Samuel Goldwyn
  • People
  • Money
  • Why

• Although China and United States are competitors, China and the United States are indeed partners in trade.

  

  Zhu Rongji
  • United States
  • Trade
  • China

• Let's be cautious about dreaming up extreme scenarios. The situation in Iraq is still salvageable.

  

  Rand Beers
  • Up
  • Situation
  • Dreaming

• Censorship is the thing that stops you doing what you want to do, and what writers want to talk about is what they do, not what stops them doing it.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Want
  • Doing
  • Censorship

• Some Muslim students experience secularism as an act of aggression.

  

  Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
  • Experience
  • Act
  • Students

• I'd be nervous about skiing, wondering what I'd do if I felt shaky on top of a mountain; but other diabetics do ski, so there's no reason I couldn't.

  

  Dana Hill
  • Reason
  • Mountain
  • Skiing

• I would be loath to speak ill of any person who I do not know deserves it, but I am afraid he is an attorney.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Speak
  • Afraid
  • Attorney

• You know what the critics are. If you tell the truth they only say you're cynical and it does an author no good to get a reputation for cynicism.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Good
  • Truth
  • Author

• There's such an extreme feeling to be in love, especially in quite an emotionally destructive relationship, where you're both kind of really bad for each other, but you love each other so much. Those extreme emotions, I think, can only be described with extreme imagery.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Love
  • Feeling
  • Relationship

• I think just drinking juice is too extreme for a diet. Your body needs more than juice, so I think it's a very hard thing to do - very challenging and probably very unhealthy for your body. You can't get everything you need from a juice. I love juice because it can provide you with nutrients - but drink it alongside your diet!

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Think
  • Body
  • Diet

• Stand straight, walk proud, have a little faith.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Faith
  • Proud
  • Walk

• In a democracy, you have to find a market niche, make sure a novel is 'interesting' and 'spectacular.' That may be the toughest censorship of all.

  

  Imre Kertesz
  • May
  • Interesting
  • Democracy

• When Lebanon started its resistance it was a small and divided country.

  

  Bashar al-Assad
  • Country
  • Small
  • Resistance

• Sexual Harassment Legislation often creates a hostile environment, an environment of female-as-child.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Environment

• You don't spend twenty years of your life in the service and not have a warm, nostalgic feeling left in you … It's a small service, and there's a lot of esprit de corps.

  

  Alex Haley
  • Life
  • Feeling
  • Small

• Is it just I who cannot found a school, or can a philosopher never do so?

  

  Ludwig Wittgenstein
  • School

• I believe in capitalism. I need to make a profit, but I would like to do it with ethics, dignity, morals. It's my dream.

  

  Brunello Cucinelli
  • Believe
  • Dream
  • Ethics

• If I got a football scholarship, I was going to be a football player.

  

  Colin Kaepernick
  • Football
  • Player

• We hold that no person or set of persons can properly establish a standard of expression for others.

  

  William Randolph Hearst
  • Persons
  • Expression
  • Speech

• Before the change of regime in 1989, you couldn't talk about anti-Semitism, and after the regime change, people started to talk about taboo subjects. I was 8 years old in those days, and later, in politics and society, these extreme wright ideologies got stronger - the skinhead movement was started, a lot of ex-Nazis emigrated and financially supported these extreme right movements in Hungary.

  

  Csanad Szegedi
  • Change
  • Extreme
  • Regime

• There's two systems of health care: the one for the rich that's really good, then there's the one for the inner city, where they leave ladies in the emergency room unattended for 24 hours until they drop dead.

  

  Fat Joe
  • Good
  • City
  • Health

• The U.S. has been a great friend all these years, but as soon as Africa found itself starting to move up, the U.S. is really disengaging.

  

  Mo Ibrahim
  • Friend
  • Moving
  • Found

• Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Censorship
  • Extreme
  • Assassination