George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it.
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I am a Christian. That obliges me to be a Communist.
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If I refuse to allow my leg to be amputated, its mortification and my death may prove that I was wrong; but if I let the leg go, nobody can ever prove that it would not have mortified had I been obstinate. Operation is therefore the safe side for the surgeon as well as the lucrative side.
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It is the highest creatures who take the longest to mature, and are the most helpless during their immaturity.
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The duke inquires contemptuously whether his gamekeeper is the equal of the Astronomer Royal; but he insists that they shall both be hanged equally if they murder him.
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The more ignorant men are, the more convinced are they that their little parish and their little chapel is an apex to which civilization and philosophy has painfully struggled up the pyramid of time from a desert of savagery.
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Human beings are the only animals of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid.
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The conversion of a savage to Christianity is the conversion of Christianity to savagery.
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No severity of punishment deters when detection is uncertain, as it always must be.
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You can rave about Stravinsky without the slightest risk of being classified as a lunatic by the next generation .
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I was told that my diet was so poor that I could not repair the bones that were broken and operated on. So I have just had an Xradiograph taken; and lo! perfectly mended solid bone so beautifully white that I have left instructions that, if I die, a glove stretcher is to be made of me and sent to you as a souvenir...
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Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
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The more reasonable a student was in mathematics, the more unreasonable she was in the affairs of real life, concerning which fewtrustworthy postulates have yet been ascertained.
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Few of us have vitality enough to make any of our instincts imperious.
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At present there is not a single credible established religion in the world.
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Kings are not born: they are made by artificial hallucination.
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Creation is a miracle of daily recurrence. 'A miracle a minute' would not be a bad slogan for God.
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I loathe the mess of mean superstitions and misunderstood prophecies which is still rammed down the throats of children under the name of Christianity.
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I do not want to make my stomach a graveyard of dead animals.
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The person who is ignorant enough to believe that his nourishment depends on meat is in a horrible dilemma.
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Vitality is a woman is a blind fury of creation.
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Gambling promises the poor what property performs for the rich-something for nothing.
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There have been summits of civilization at which heretics like Socrates, who was killed because he was wiser than his neighbors, have not been tortured, but ordered to kill themselves in the most painless manner known to their judges. But from that summit there was a speedy relapse into our present savagery.
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Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men's imperfections, and conceal your own.