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 fundamental basis of this Nation's law was given to Moses on the Mount. The fundamental basis of our Bill of Rights comes from the teachings which we get from Exodus and St. Matthew, from Isaiah and St. Paul.

  

  Harry S Truman
  • Moses
  • Bill Of Rights
  • Nation's law

• In her present ignorance, woman's religion, instead of making her noble and free, by the wrong application of great principles ofright and justice, has made her bondage but more certain and lasting, her degradation more hopeless and complete.

  

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton
  • Justice
  • Religion
  • Ignorance

• My dog does have his failings, of course. He's afraid of firecrackers and hides in the clothes closet whenever we run the vacuum cleaner, but, unlike me he's not afraid of what other people think of him or anxious about his public image.

  

  Gary A. Kowalski
  • Thinking
  • Running
  • Friendship

• But no man's a hero to himself.

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Hero

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

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Punishment
  • Uncertain
  • Severity