George Bernard Shaw Quotes

Our laws make law impossible; our liberties destroy all freedom; our property is organized robbery; our morality an impudent hypocrisy; our wisdom is administered by inexperienced or mal-experienced dupes; our power wielded by cowards and weaklings; and our honour false in all its points. I am an enemy of the existing order for good reasons...

George Bernard Shaw

• Freedom
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• There's nothing wrong with being anthropomorphic. That's how we understand the world.

  

  Natalie Jeremijenko
  • World
  • Understand
  • Nothing

• I studied Morse code.

  

  Adam Driver
  • Code
  • Studied
  • Morse

• When grand plans for scientific and defence technologies are made, do the people in power think about the sacrifices the people in the laboratories and fields have to make?

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • People
  • Power
  • Think

• My first book, 'In Praise of Slowness,' examines how the world got stuck in fast-forward and chronicles a global trend towards putting on the brakes. That trend is called the Slow movement. 'Slow' in this context does not mean doing everything at a snail's pace. It means doing everything at the right speed.

  

  Carl Honore
  • World
  • Book
  • Speed

• She made the decision that her existence had lost its meaning. And you cannot judge that.

  

  Jack Kevorkian
  • She
  • Lost
  • Decision

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

  

  Mahmoud Abbas
  • Country
  • Small
  • Build

• I've always thought Shawn Michaels's story is fascinating.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • Always
  • Thought
  • Story

• You can take of a man's money, but when it's all said and done, you've only taken his money.

  

  Wayne Newton
  • Money
  • Done
  • Man

• If I could only give three words of advice, they would be, 'Tell the truth.' If I got three more words, I'd add, 'All the time.'

  

  Randy Pausch
  • Time
  • Truth
  • Words

• I was a commercial girl. In drama school, I was a mediocre model occasionally to pick up some extra cash, and because clearly I'm not six feet tall, and I had baby weight, I would mainly just would do promotional stuff.

  

  Lake Bell
  • Up
  • School
  • Girl

• I play golf for a living. I'm grateful for that. It's a beautiful game, provides a great opportunity.

  

  Zach Johnson The Fray
  • Great
  • Game
  • Beautiful

• I've been playing both sides of the law my entire career. It's not really surprising for me to be doing opposing sides simultaneously. I would argue that even though my character on 'Hawaii Five-0' originated on the wrong side of the law, I'd say he's worked his way over to the good side.

  

  Ian Anthony Dale
  • Good
  • Character
  • Career

• Heavenly Father has given us a priceless gift in our capacity to communicate with each other. Our communications are at the core of our relationships with others. If we are to return home safely to Heavenly Father, we must develop righteous relationships with His children here in mortality.

  

  L. Lionel Kendrick
  • Children
  • Home
  • Father

• Now while the German money is over for Hollywood, I still have $80 million to make movies, and we will have two things coming up: less major movies and the price for actors will go down.

  

  Uwe Boll
  • Up
  • Money
  • Movies

• I am a fiscal conservative.

  

  Ed Rendell
  • Conservative
  • Fiscal

• I'm not going to change my game because I got hurt.

  

  Zach LaVine
  • Game
  • Change
  • Hurt

• I have never written for an audience. On the other hand I do not write merely to please myself.

  

  Patrick O'Brian
  • Hand
  • Myself
  • Write

• One person I find fascinating is J.Crew's Mickey Drexler. I would love to get into that brain and see how it works.

  

  Imran Amed
  • Brain
  • Person
  • Works

• There are no tests similar to SATs to tell us how much undergraduates know. State legislators, who appropriate billions of dollars each year to higher education, are naturally interested in finding out what they are getting for their money.

  

  Derek Bok
  • Money
  • Education

• I went to small liberal schools my whole life, and I was also a bad girl in high school; I went to, like, five schools.

  

  Paloma Elsesser
  • Life
  • School
  • Bad

• I can see now a vision emerging how Canada is going to profit in the future from our Arctic resources without destroying the environment on which it is all based.

  

  Brian Mulroney
  • Future
  • Environment
  • Vision

• People are, well, only human. We know that. The rule of law is borne out in identifying, condemning, and punishing those who violate the standards on which we all agree. This is exactly what we do in America.

  

  James Inhofe
  • People
  • America
  • Law

• I say legalize marijuana because we have a chance to leave this world a better place for our children. Marijuana legalization is job creation, tax dollars, something to rejuvenate our pathetic economy. This is a multibillion-dollar industry. This is about jobs; this is about economics; this is about freedom. This is about taking our country back.

  

  Jesse Ventura
  • World
  • Country
  • Children

• Our laws make law impossible; our liberties destroy all freedom; our property is organized robbery; our morality an impudent hypocrisy; our wisdom is administered by inexperienced or mal-experienced dupes; our power wielded by cowards and weaklings; and our honour false in all its points. I am an enemy of the existing order for good reasons...

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Freedom
  • Law
  • Liberties