George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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Emotional excitement reaches men through tea, tobacco, opium, whisky, and religion.
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You can rave about Stravinsky without the slightest risk of being classified as a lunatic by the next generation .
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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.
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The novelties of one generation are only the resuscitated fashions of the generation before last.
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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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Morality is not respectability.
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Nothing soothes me more after a long and maddening course of pianoforte recitals than to sit and have my teeth drilled.
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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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We don't bother much about dress and manners in England, because as a nation we don't dress well and we've no manners.
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Money enables us to get what we want instead of what other people think we want.
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Instruction in sex is as important as instruction in food; yet not only are our adolescents not taught the physiology of sex, but never warned that the strongest sexual attraction may exist between persons so incompatible in tastes and capacities that they could not endure living together for a week much less a lifetime.
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I fought linotype and montype for some time because it would not justify as well as handset could be made to do; but at last, as always happens, the machine outdid the hand, and got all the best types on it.
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When the world goes mad, one must accept madness as sanity; since sanity is, in the last analysis, nothing but the madness on which the whole world happens to agree.
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Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.
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The real pleasure of one's life is the devotion to a great objective of one's consideration.
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Why should you call me to account for eating decently? If I battened on the scorched corpses of animals, you might well ask me why I did that. Why should I be filthy and inhuman? Why should I be an accomplice in the wholesale horror and degradation of the slaughter-house?
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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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When the military man approaches, the world locks up its spoons and packs off its womankind.
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I must ... warn my readers that my attacks are directed against themselves, not against my stage figures.
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Cruelty must be whitewashed by a moral excuse, and pretense of reluctance.
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Worst of all, there is no sign of any relaxation of antisemitism. Logically it has nothing to do with Fascism. But the human raceis imitative rather than logical; and as Fascism spreads antisemitism spreads.
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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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Even if animal experimentation was proved to be of value, it would be morally wrong.
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When a lion meets another with a louder roar, the first lion thinks the last a bore.