George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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Self-sacrifice enables us to sacrifice other people without blushing.
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Morality is not respectability.
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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...
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I shall always be a flower girl to Professor Higgins, because he always treats me as a flower girl, and always will; but I know I can be a lady to you, because you always treat me as a lady, and always will.
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The moment we want to believe something, we suddenly see all the arguments for it, and become blind to the arguments against it.
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My own education has been entirely controversial: that is why I know what I am writing about; and appear eccentric to dogmatically educated Old School Ties whose heads are stuffed with obsolete shibboleths.
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The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and about all time.
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Death is for many of us the gate of hell; but we are inside on the way out, not outside on the way in.
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I hate singers, a miserable crew who think that music exists only in their own throats.
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You cannot have power for good without having power for evil too. Even mother's milk nourishes murderers as well as heroes.
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Man is the only animal which esteems itself rich in proportion to the number and voracity of its parasites.
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Gardening is the only unquestionably useful job.
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The Old Testament God is a person with body parts and passions. The Church of England God has neither body, parts nor passions, and is therefore not a person.
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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.
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The business man - the man to whom age brings golf instead of wisdom.
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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.
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Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.
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It is nearly 50 years since I was assured by a conclave of doctors that if I did not eat meat I should die of starvation.
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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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The haughty American nation ... makes the Negro clean its boots and then proves the moral and physical inferiority of the Negro by the fact that he is a bootblack.
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During the last considerable epidemic at the turn of the century, I was a member of the Health Committee of London Borough Council, and I learned how the credit of vaccination is kept up statistically by diagnosing all the revaccinated cases (of smallpox) as pustular eczema, varioloid or what not---except smallpox.
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History, sir, will tell lies as usual.
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Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
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There is no accomplishment so easy to acquire as politeness and none more profitable.