George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men's imperfections, and conceal your own.
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Men get tired of everything, of heaven no less than of hell; and that all history is nothing but a record of the oscillations of the world between these two extremes. An epoch is but a swing of the pendulum; and each generation thinks the world is progressing because it is always moving.
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Grain by grain, a loaf. Stone upon stone, a palace.
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To understand a saint, you must hear the devil's advocate; and the same is true of the artist.
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A fashion is nothing but an induced epidemic.
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Journalists are too poorly paid in this country to know anything that is fit for publication.
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My method of getting a play across the footlights is like a revolver shooting: every line has a bullet in it and comes with an explosion.
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I worship you, Eve. I must have something to worship. Something quite different to myself, like you. There must be something greater than the snake.
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Civilized society is one huge bourgeoisie: no nobleman dares now shock his greengrocer.
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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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Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
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That older and greater church to which I belong: the church where the oftener you laugh the better, because by laughter only can you destroy evil without malice...
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Once the divinity we worshipped made itself visible and comprehensible, we crucified it.
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We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
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The British are apt to make merits of their stupidities, and to represent their various incapacities as points of good breeding.
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The art of government is the organization of idolatry. The bureaucracy consists of functionaries; the aristocracy, of idols; the democracy, of idolaters. The populace cannot understand the bureaucracy: it can only worship the national idols.
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A succession of eye-openers each involving the repudiation of some previously held belief.
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No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense an idiot.
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Disobedience, the rarest and most courageous of the virtues, is seldom distinguished from neglect, the laziest and commonest of the vices.
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I can't control what life did to me, but I can control how I react. Therein lies the difference.
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Schools must not become the agencies through which propaganda advocated by any section of society is spread. The method of control always a crucial problem should be in harmony with the fundamental values and principles of the states...
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Those who understand evil pardon it.
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The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.
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Reformers have the idea that change can be achieved by brute sanity.