George Bernard Shaw Quotes

There was only one virtue, pugnacity; only one vice, pacifism. That is an essential condition of war.

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• There was only one virtue, pugnacity; only one vice, pacifism. That is an essential condition of war.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Way
  • Virtue
  • Condition