George Bernard Shaw Quotes
It is not necessary to replace a guillotined criminal: it is necessary to replace a guillotined social system.
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I have faith in the jury system.
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When a system of oppression has become institutionalized it is unnecessary for individuals to be oppressive.
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It can be difficult to run your own firm, but the trade off is fewer conflicts and more control.
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The system of idolatry, invented by modern christianity, far surpasses in absurdity anything that we have ever heard of.
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I wrote my first novel in eighth grade for a boy named Kenny on whom I had an unrequited crush and who sat behind me in social studies.
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After 20 years, a million written words, and nine rejected novels, I finally landed a book contract.
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The cure for crime is not the electric chair, but the high chair.
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On the other side, I do believe that the rhetoric we are seeing from the Democrats today is unprecedented, is a new low in presidential politics and goes beyond political discourse and amounts to political hate speech.
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The world is shifting from a hegemonic era, where the United States dominated alone, to a multipolar system.
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They call me corrupt, frivolous. I am not at all privileged. Maybe the only privileged thing is my face. And corrupt? God! I would not look like this if I am corrupt. Some ugliness would settle down on my system.
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Writers of historical fiction are not under the same obligation as historians to find evidence for the statements they make. For us it is sufficient if what we say can't be disproved or shown to be false.
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I'm not that involved in personal grooming. But I try not to be offensive to people.
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I'm not an acting monk or anything. I'm not, like, the most well-adjusted actor.
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I have a social life. But I don't discuss it.
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I couldn't even go to the bathroom alone. My mother or a social worker always went with me.
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There is a significant momentum behind the social Internet. A wide range of public investors were very enthusiastic about that.
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I read that book, 'Lonesome Dove,' and I told my agent that they were gonna make a miniseries out of it and I wanted to be in it. I didn't care what part.
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A criminal trial is like a Russian novel: it starts with exasperating slowness as the characters are introduced to a jury, then there are complications in the form of minor witnesses, the protagonist finally appears and contradictions arise to produce drama, and finally as both jury and spectators grow weary and confused the pace quickens, reaching its climax in passionate final argument.
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Stanford may be the best university in the world, but you can get all the way through here without knowing where your food came from, without being able to say where we came from, without being able to give a coherent description of why the climate is changing and why we should be concerned about it. So I started teaching a course in human evolution and the environment that's open to all Stanford students, no prerequisites.
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And I don't really drink alot of booze, alcohol will kill ya... but I smoke all the pot I can find, I don't smoke it all at once, I just do a little bit at a time, and I uh, I used to take acid but I quit around 1971.
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It is not necessary to replace a guillotined criminal: it is necessary to replace a guillotined social system.
