George Bernard Shaw Quotes
Chess is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever, when they are only wasting their time.
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Islam is the best religion and Muslims are the worst followers...
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The nation's morals are like its teeth: the more decayed they are the more it hurts to touch them.
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We are more gullible and superstitious today than we were in the Middle Ages, and an example of modern credulity is the widespread belief that the Earth is round. The average man can advance not a single reason for thinking that the Earth is round. He merely swallows this theory because there is something about it that appeals to the twentieth century mentality.
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After studying the Hungarian language for years, I can confidently conclude that had Hungarian been my mother tongue, it would have been more precious. Simply because through this extraordinary, ancient and powerful language it is possible to precisely describe the tiniest differences and the most secretive tremors of emotions.
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Although I cannot lay an egg, I am a very good judge of omelettes...
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The apparent multiplication of gods is bewildering at the first glance, but you soon discover that they are the same GOD. There is always one uttermost God who defies personification. This makes Hinduism the most tolerant religion in the world, because its one transcendent God includes all possible gods. In fact Hinduism is so elastic and so subtle that the most profound Methodist, and crudest idolater, are equally at home with it.
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Decency is Indecency’s Conspiracy of Silence.
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Home is the girl's prison and the woman's workhouse.
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If at age 20 you are not a Communist then you have no heart. If at age 30 you are not a Capitalist then you have no brains.
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I must have been an insufferable child; all children are.
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It is quite useless to declare that all men are born free if you deny that they are born good . Guarantee a man's goodness and his liberty will take care of itself. To guarantee his freedom on condition that you approve of his moral character is formally to abolish all freedom whatsoever, as every man's liberty is at the mercy of a moral indictment which any fool can trump up against everyone who violates custom, whether as a prophet or as a rascal.
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'We know now that the soul is the body, and the body the soul. They tell us they are different because they want to persuade us that we can keep our souls if we let them make slaves of our bodies.'
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Must then a Christ perish in torment in every age to save those that have no imagination?
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The price of ability does not depend on merit but on supply and demand.
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The more I see of the moneyed classes, the more I understand the guillotine.
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A healthy nation is as unconscious of its nationality as a healthy man of his bones. But if you break a nation's nationality it will think of nothing else but getting it set again.
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Scratch an Englishman and find a Protestant.
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It is impossible for an Englishman to open his mouth without making some other Englishman hate or despise him.
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Every fool believes what his teachers tell him, and calls his credulity science or morality as confidently as his father called it divine revelation.
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Activity is the only road to knowledge.
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Hurrah for revolution and more cannon-shot! A beggar upon horseback lashes a beggar on foot. Hurrah for revolution and cannon come again! The beggars have changed places, but the lash goes on.
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Now that we have learned to fly the air like birds, swim under water like fish, we lack one thing - to learn to live on earth as human beings.
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Alcohol is a very necessary article. It enables Parliament to do things at eleven at night that no sane person would do at eleven in the morning.
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The greatest of evils and the worst of crimes is poverty.