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 judicial system is the most expensive machine ever invented for finding out what happened and what to do about it.
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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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These questions that philosophers confront have to be reconfronted in every generation. The problems of philosophy reoccur in different forms.
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The military authorities of NATO are contemplating all the possibilities so that an embargo can be guaranteed, not only by NATO-friendly countries but also for other things.
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I'm not invited. I'm not on the A list, haven't been on it in 20 years and my feet have never trod its red fluffy carpets.
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It is not necessary to replace a guillotined criminal: it is necessary to replace a guillotined social system.
