George Bernard Shaw Quotes

Laws, religions, creeds, and systems of ethics, instead of making society better than its best unit, make it worse than its average unit, because they are never up to date.

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• When Frank the Pug is singing I Will Survive, the only reason it's funny is that Will is in that shot trying not to get angry. A shot of a dog singing I Will Survive on its own will not get a laugh.

  

  Barry Sonnenfeld
  • Trying
  • Funny
  • Singing

• We cannot build a viable state with a country that is disintegrating into small pieces.

  

  Mahmoud Abbas
  • Country
  • Small
  • Build

• It is weird. A lot of people try to ask me political questions. I'm not a politician.

  

  Barkhad Abdi
  • People
  • Political
  • Me

• If the United States and China can accommodate each other on a broad range of issues, the prospects for stability in Asia will be greatly increased.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Will
  • China
  • Stability

• America has not produced a more salient political musician than Gil Scott-Heron.

  

  Adam Mansbach
  • America
  • Political
  • More

• To go back, the mistake that Universal Studios made with 'Dawn of the Dead' was that they didn't have enough money or cared enough to make a soundtrack.

  

  Zack Snyder
  • Money
  • Mistake
  • Dawn

• The country of Britain is wonderful because of its royalty.

  

  Yayoi Kusama
  • Country
  • Wonderful
  • Royalty

• I exercise five days a week at home.

  

  L'Wren Scott
  • Home
  • Exercise
  • Week

• There's no way I'm going to stand up for bad ingredients. We love seasonal ingredients. It's a false dichotomy to say that modern cooking is at odds with that, but some people want to have a great ingredient and no technique.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • People
  • Up
  • Great

• I have been a harmony enthusiast since I was a child, singing in choir and with friends growing up. I always put a ton of harmonies on my demos.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Up
  • Friends
  • Growing

• I'm learning to play by the rules. I sort of hate to think of it that way, but that's how it is. I'm really learning to function out there and in such a way that I don't need to drink.

  

  Dana Plato
  • Hate
  • Learning
  • Rules

• I had an awful lot to say in what I wore as Romana.

  

  Lalla Ward
  • Say
  • Lot
  • Had

• Long-distance relationships are hard no matter what. When you don't have face-to-face time, it's just different.

  

  Vanessa Hudgens
  • Time
  • Different
  • Long

• Power doesn't just exist. It is threaded through different mechanisms of control. I'm interested in those complexities. But I want to address that in very forthright language and sometimes with images.

  

  Barbara Kruger
  • Different
  • Power
  • Control

• It's a shame about California, and particularly about L.A., where they've demolished so many landmarks. It's a bit of a disease there, where if anything is over 30 years old, they sort of knock it down and replace it. It's a strange town, it's this sprawling suburb, and then there's a city, the old town.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • City
  • California
  • Down

• All provisions of federal, state or local law requiring or permitting discrimination in public education must yield.

  

  Earl Warren
  • Education
  • Law

• The Ethical Society, therefore, is like a Church in maintaining, and emphasizing the importance of maintaining the custom of public assemblies on Sunday.

  

  Felix Adler
  • Society
  • Church
  • Sunday

• His parents had abdicated responsibility to an illusion.

  

  Alastair Reynolds
  • Parents
  • Responsibility

• Some people do not seem to grasp that I still have to sit down in peace and write the books, apparently believing that they pop up like mushrooms without my connivance.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • People
  • Up
  • Believe

• A program of "disarmament," while imperialist antagonisms survive, is the most pernicious of fictions. Even if it were realized by way of general agreement - an obviously fantastic assumption!- that would by no means prevent a new war. The imperialists do not make war because there are armaments; on the contrary, they forge arms when they need to fight.

  

  Leon Trotsky
  • War
  • Fight
  • Survive

• I remember everything What have I become? My sweetest friend? Everyone I know goes away in the end You could have it all My empire of dirt I will let you down I will make you hurt.

  

  Trent Reznor Nine Inch Nails
  • Friends
  • Remember
  • Hurt

• Mr. Neo-Angular – I am doing my duty. My ethics are based on dogma, not on feeling. Vertue – I know that a rule is to be obeyed because it is a rule and not because it appeals to my feelings at the moment.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Feeling
  • Ethics

• Laws, religions, creeds, and systems of ethics, instead of making society better than its best unit, make it worse than its average unit, because they are never up to date.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Laws
  • Ethics
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