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Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
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Cruelty must be whitewashed by a moral excuse, and pretense of reluctance.
George Bernard Shaw
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Gentle Jesus, meek and mild' is a snivelling modern invention, with no warrant in the gospels.
George Bernard Shaw -
No community has ever yet passed beyond the initial phases in which its pugnacity and fanaticism enabled it to found a nation, and its cupidity to establish and develop a commercial civilization.
George Bernard Shaw -
If you injure your neighbour, better not do it by halves.
George Bernard Shaw -
Nothing is more dreadful than a husband who keeps telling you everything he thinks, and always wants to know what you think.
George Bernard Shaw -
Without danger I cannot be great. That is how I pay for Abel's blood. Danger and fear follow my steps everywhere. Without them courage would have no sense. And it is courage, courage, courage that raises the blood of life to crimson splendor.
George Bernard Shaw -
I make no vows. I take my chance. … It means that I fear certainty as you fear uncertainty. It means that nothing is certain but uncertainty. If I bind the future I bind my will. If I bind my will I strangle creation.
George Bernard Shaw
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History, sir, will tell lies as usual.
George Bernard Shaw -
I must ... warn my readers that my attacks are directed against themselves, not against my stage figures.
George Bernard Shaw -
Opera is when a tenor and soprano want to make love, but are prevented from doing so by a baritone.
George Bernard Shaw -
Every man over forty is a scoundrel.Man
George Bernard Shaw -
I am a Christian. That obliges me to be a Communist.
George Bernard Shaw -
I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people.
George Bernard Shaw
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Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.
George Bernard Shaw -
It's all that the young can do for the old, to shock them and keep them up to date.
George Bernard Shaw -
Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family.
George Bernard Shaw -
The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and about all time.
George Bernard Shaw -
The moment we want to believe something, we suddenly see all the arguments for it, and become blind to the arguments against it.
George Bernard Shaw -
I have a strong feeling that I shall be glad when I am dead and done for - scrapped at last to make room for somebody better, cleverer, more perfect than myself.
George Bernard Shaw
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The world is populated in the main by people who should not exist...
George Bernard Shaw -
As well consult a butcher on the value of vegetarianism as a doctor on the worth of vaccination.
George Bernard Shaw -
A family is a tyranny ruled over by it's weakest member.
George Bernard Shaw -
You cannot have power for good without having power for evil too. Even mother's milk nourishes murderers as well as heroes.
George Bernard Shaw