George Bernard Shaw Quotes

No severity of punishment deters when detection is uncertain, as it always must be.

George Bernard Shaw

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• Fair treatment in the work force is no longer exclusively a labor issue, nor is it a women's issue - it is a fundamental economic issue.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • Work
  • Women
  • Economic

• You will be pleased to know I stand obediently for the national anthem, though of course I would defend your right to remain seated should you so decide.

  

  Ira Glasser
  • You
  • Know
  • Stand

• I had rather take my chance that some traitors will escape detection than spread abroad a spirit of general suspicion and distrust, which accepts rumor and gossip in place of undismayed and unintimidated inquiry.

  

  Learned Hand
  • Gossip

• Manufacturers and sellers acting within the law should not be held responsible for the actions of criminals who misuse their products.

  

  Olympia Snowe
  • Law
  • Actions
  • Products

• Adventure and danger can be good for your heart and soul.

  

  Amy Poehler
  • Good
  • Heart
  • Soul

• It is in the brain, and the brain only, that the great sins of the world take place also. You, Mr. Gray, you yourself, with yourrose-red youth and your rose-white boyhood, you have had passions that have made you afraid, thoughts that have filled you with terror, day-dreams and sleeping dreams whose mere memory might stain your cheek with shame…

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • World
  • Thoughts
  • Memory

• The United States of America is the richest country in the world; yet we're the worst at taking care of poor people.

  

  Unita Zelma Blackwell
  • People
  • World
  • Country

• For more than two centuries, the defenders of liberty have put their lives on the line, because they have known that we cannot take our freedoms for granted.

  

  Virgil Goode
  • Liberty
  • Century
  • Granted

• My brain hums with scraps of poetry and madness.

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • Brain
  • Madness
  • Scrap

• It is better to advise than upbraid, for the one corrects the erring; the other only convicts them.

  

  Epictetus
  • Advise
  • Corrects
  • Convicts

• Faith actually moves no mountains, but instead raises them up where there were none before.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Faith
  • Mountains
  • Raises

• Everyday is an opportunity to make a new happy ending.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Happy
  • Opportunity
  • Everyday

• The wise man is satisfied with nothing.

  

  William Godwin
  • Men
  • Wise
  • Satisfied

• We who have lived before railways were made belong to another world. It was only yesterday, but what a gulf between now and then! Then was the old world. Stage-coaches, more or less swift, riding-horses, pack-horses, highwaymen, knights in armor, Norman invaders, Roman legions, Druids, Ancient Britons painted blue, and so forth -- all these belong to the old period. But your railroad starts the new era, and we of a certain age belong to the new time and the old one. We who lived before railways, and survive out of the ancient world, are like Father Noah and his family out of the Ark.

  

  William Makepeace Thackeray
  • World
  • Age
  • Father

• Punishment cannot heal spirits, can only break them.

  

  Barbara Deming
  • Punishment
  • Only
  • Heal

• The pleasing punishment that women bear.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Women
  • Punishment
  • Pleasing

• Writing papers was the punishment we had to endure for the thrill of discovering new mathematics.

  

  Edward Frenkel
  • Mathematics
  • Punishment
  • Discovering

• No severity of punishment deters when detection is uncertain, as it always must be.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Punishment
  • Uncertain
  • Severity