George Bernard Shaw Quotes

Our first duty, to which every other consideration should be sacrificed, is not to be poor.

George Bernard Shaw

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• It is the duty of every good officer to obey any orders given him by his commander in chief.

  

  Nathan Hale
  • Good
  • Duty
  • Him

• Depart from discretion when it interferes with duty.

  

  Hannah More
  • Duty
  • Discretion
  • Depart

• The rule of joy and the law of duty seem to me all one.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
  • Law
  • Me
  • Joy

• It is the duty of our men to enroll themselves in the national services. We need all our manpower for defence. For the military and... we need a quarter of a million men.

  

  Eamon de Valera
  • Men
  • Military
  • Duty

• The Muslims refuse our culture and try to impose their culture on us. I reject them, and this is not only my duty toward my culture-it is toward my values, my principles, my civilization.

  

  Oriana Fallaci
  • Culture
  • Values
  • Duty

• I have always done my duty. I am ready to die. My only regret is for the friends I leave behind me.

  

  Zachary Taylor
  • Friends
  • Die
  • Regret

• The liberties of our country, the freedom of our civil constitution, are worth defending against all hazards: And it is our duty to defend them against all attacks.

  

  Samuel Adams
  • Country
  • Freedom
  • Constitution

• Our duty is to be patient.

  

  Hamza Yusuf
  • Duty
  • Patient
  • Be Patient

• It is the duty of Her Majesty's government neither to flap nor to falter.

  

  Harold MacMillan
  • Government
  • Duty
  • Her

• The right to life is guaranteed to all Americans in the Declaration of Independence, and ensuring this is upheld is the Constitutional duty of all members of Congress.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Life
  • Duty
  • Independence

• One had to cram all this stuff into one's mind for examinations, whether one liked it or not. This coercion had such a deterring effect upon me that, after I had passed the final examination, I found the consideration of any scientific problems distasteful to me for an entire year.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Mind
  • Consideration
  • Final

• Nothing truly valuable arises from ambition or from a mere sense of duty; it stems rather from love and devotion towards men and towards objective things.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Love
  • Ambition
  • Sense

• I believe that we don't need to worry about what happens after this life, as long as we do our duty here-to love and to serve.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Worry

• In Christian marriage, love is not an option. It is a duty.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • Love
  • Christian
  • Marriage

• The newspaper is of necessity something of a monopoly, and its first duty is to shun the temptations of monopoly. Its primary office is the gathering of news. At the peril of its soul it must see that the supply is not tainted. Neither in what it gives, nor in what it does not give, nor in the mode of presentation, must the unclouded face of truth suffer wrong. Comment is free but facts are sacred.

  

  C. P. Scott
  • Truth
  • Soul
  • Free

• If this is not done, future ages will certainly look back upon us as a people so immersed in the pursuit of wealth as to be blind to higher considerations.

  

  Alfred Russel Wallace
  • People
  • Done
  • Future

• The foregoing considerations lead us to the very important conclusion, that matter is essentially force, and nothing but force; that matter, as popularly understood, does not exist, and is, in fact, philosophically inconceivable.

  

  Alfred Russel Wallace
  • Important
  • Force
  • Conclusion

• In the discharge of duties my guide will be the Constitution, which I this day swear to preserve, protect, and defend.

  

  Zachary Taylor
  • Constitution
  • Duty
  • Guides

• I understand why war is not popular, but I also know this: The belief that peace is desirable is rarely enough to achieve it. Peace requires responsibility. Peace entails sacrifice. That's why NATO continues to be indispensable. That's why we must strengthen U.N. and regional peacekeeping, and not leave the task to a few countries.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Why
  • War
  • Peace

• Where there are neglected opportunities we will seize on them, and we will focus on the priorities of the people of London: cutting crime, improving transport, protecting green space, delivering affordable housing, giving taxpayers value for money in every one of the 32 boroughs.

  

  Boris Johnson
  • People
  • Money
  • Giving

• Only in the Roman Empire and in Spain under Arab domination has culture been a potent factor. Under the Arab, the standard attained was wholly admirable; to Spain flocked the greatest scientists, thinkers, astronomers, and mathematicians of the world, and side by side there flourished a spirit of sweet human tolerance and a sense of purist chivalry. Then with the advent of Christianity, came the barbarians.

  

  Adolf Hitler
  • Culture
  • Factor
  • Spain

• The best means of forming a manly, virtuous, and happy people will be found in the right education of youth. Without this foundation, every other means, in my opinion, must fail.

  

  George Washington
  • People
  • Education
  • Mean

• Our first duty, to which every other consideration should be sacrificed, is not to be poor.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Duty
  • Consideration
  • Sacrificed