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

• I like having little kids look at me. It's fun. They make these little faces.

  

  Linda Blair
  • Kids
  • Fun
  • Faces

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

  

  Amy Poehler
  • Good
  • Heart
  • Soul

• My life-my whole life- take it, and do with it what you will. I love you-love you as I have never loved any living thing. From the moment I met you I loved you, loved you blindly, adoringly,madly! You didn't know it then-you know it now.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Life
  • Love
  • For Her

• 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

• What is it, in your opinion, to be a great nobleman? It is to be master of several objects that men covet, and thus to be able to satisfy the wants and the desires of many. It is these wants and these desires that attract them towards you, and that make them submit to you: were it not for these, they would not even look at you; but they hope, by these services... to obtain from you some part of the good which they desire, and of which they see that you have the disposal.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • Opinion
  • Master
  • Desires

• Punishment cannot heal spirits, can only break them.

  

  Barbara Deming
  • Punishment
  • Only
  • Heal

• Strange, that I came into the world with nothing, and now I am going away with this stupendous caravan of sin! Wherever I look, I see only God... I have sinned terribly, and I do not know what punishment awaits me.

  

  Aurangzeb
  • God
  • Sin
  • Punishment

• I'm always doing something musically - when I'm working or when I'm off.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Doing
  • Working
  • Musically

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

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Punishment
  • Uncertain
  • Severity