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Even if animal experimentation was proved to be of value, it would be morally wrong.
George Bernard Shaw -
We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
George Bernard Shaw
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The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
George Bernard Shaw -
I don't know if there are men on the moon, but if there are they must be using the earth as their lunatic asylum...
George Bernard Shaw -
In an article on Bunyan lately published in the "Contemporary Review" - the only article on the subject worth reading on the subject I ever saw (yes, thank you, I am familiar with Macaulay's patronizing prattle about "The Pilgrim's Progress") etc.
George Bernard Shaw -
I hate singers, a miserable crew who think that music exists only in their own throats.
George Bernard Shaw -
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.
George Bernard Shaw -
Music is the brandy of the damned.
George Bernard Shaw
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You know well I couldn't bear to live with a low common man after you two; and it's wicked and cruel of you to insult me by pretending I could.
George Bernard Shaw -
Creation is a miracle of daily recurrence. 'A miracle a minute' would not be a bad slogan for God.
George Bernard Shaw -
All autobiographies are lies. I do not mean unconscious, unintentional lies: I mean deliberate lies.
George Bernard Shaw -
To disbelieve in marriage is easy: to love a married woman is easy; but to betray a comrade, to be disloyal to a host, to break the covenant of bread and salt, is impossible.
George Bernard Shaw -
The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.
George Bernard Shaw -
You can always tell an old soldier by the inside of his holsters and cartridge boxes. The young ones carry pistols and cartridges; the old ones, grub.
George Bernard Shaw
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Morality is not respectability.
George Bernard Shaw -
For nearly twenty years I have been a published author... But I have never yet seen a book of mine offered for sale in a shop window.
George Bernard Shaw -
The conversion of a savage to Christianity is the conversion of Christianity to savagery.
George Bernard Shaw -
The real Brahms is nothing more than a sentimental voluptuary. rather tiresomely addicted to dressing himself up as Handel or Beethoven and making a prolonged and intolerable noise.
George Bernard Shaw -
No elaboration of physical or moral accomplishment can atone for the sin of parasitism.
George Bernard Shaw -
All roads end at the grave, which is the gate to nothingness.
George Bernard Shaw
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Independence? That's middle class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.
George Bernard Shaw -
The more a man possesses over and above what he uses, the more careworn he becomes.
George Bernard Shaw -
It has taken me nearly twenty years of studied self-restraint, aided by the natural decay of my faculties, to make myself dull enough to be accepted as a serious person by the British public; and I am not sure that I am not still regarded as a suspicious character in some quarters.
George Bernard Shaw -
A socialist is somebody who doesn't have anything, and is ready to divide it up equally among everybody.
George Bernard Shaw