George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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A married man forms married habits and becomes dependent on marriage just as a sailor becomes dependent on the sea.
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What really flatters a man is that you think him worth flattering.
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Sherlock Holmes was a drug addict without a single amiable trait.
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A true artist will let his wife starve, his children go barefoot, his mother drudge for his living at seventy, sooner than work at anything but his art.
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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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Those who understand evil pardon it.
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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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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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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 only secrets are the secrets that keep themselves.
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Emotional excitement reaches men through tea, tobacco, opium, whisky, and religion.
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No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense an idiot.
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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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Even if animal experimentation was proved to be of value, it would be morally wrong.
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Self-sacrifice enables us to sacrifice other people without blushing.
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The conversion of Paul was no conversion at all; it was Paul who converted the religion that has raised one man above sin and death.
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When the military man approaches, the world locks up its spoons and packs off its womankind.
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Youth, which is forgiven everything, forgives itself nothing: age, which forgives itself everything, is forgiven nothing.
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To a mathematician the eleventh means only a single unit: to the bushman who cannot count further than his ten fingers it is an incalculable myriad.
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All this struggling and striving to make the world better is a great mistake. Not that it's wrong to try to improve the world if you know how but simply because struggling and striving are the worst possible ways to go about doing anything!
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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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After all, the wrong road always leads somewhere.
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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.
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Once the divinity we worshipped made itself visible and comprehensible, we crucified it.