George Bernard Shaw Quotes
It is not necessary to replace a guillotined criminal: it is necessary to replace a guillotined social system.
Quotes to Explore
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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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Many in India fought against some of the ideas of changing our patent system. And we have signed the World Trade Organisation Treaty but still we have to safeguard ourselves because, many of the developed countries are, though they have signed the same WTO, but they are not practising it; anti-dumping measures they are adopting very liberally, as also tariff, non-tariff barriers. So we have to carefully argue within the WTO system our case.
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If you replace the word God in the Bible with the word Truth, it reads exactly right.
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I really become the characters when I'm writing them. I'll become one or two of them more than others, I'm consistent that way.
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I think it's really important for Haitians living abroad to go back and help with the development and infrastructure, especially because there are so many international people there.
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The art of learning fundamental common values is perhaps the greatest gain of travel to those who wish to live at ease among their fellows.
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It is not necessary to replace a guillotined criminal: it is necessary to replace a guillotined social system.
