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Compassion is the fellow-feeling of the unsound.
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Atrocities are not less atrocities when they occur in laboratories and are called medical research.
George Bernard Shaw
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Dogmatic toleration is nonsense: I would no more tolerate the teaching of Calvinism to children if I had power to persecute it than the British Raj tolerated suttee in India. Every civilized authority must draw a line between the tolerable and the intolerable.
George Bernard Shaw -
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.
George Bernard Shaw -
Clever and attractive women do not want to vote; they are willing to let men govern as long as they govern men.
George Bernard Shaw -
Every dream is a prophecy: every jest is an earnest in the womb of Time.
George Bernard Shaw -
Obedience simulates subordination as fear of the police simulates honesty.
George Bernard Shaw -
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!
George Bernard Shaw
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Nietzche . . . he was a confirmed Life Force worshipper. It was he who raked up the Superman, who is as old as Prometheus; and the 20th century will run after this newest of the old crazes when it gets tired of the world, the flesh, and your humble servant.
George Bernard Shaw -
Physically there is nothing to distinguish human society from the farm-yard except that children are more troublesome and costly than chickens and calves and that men and women are not so completely enslaved as farm stock.
George Bernard Shaw -
We must not stay as we are, doing always what was done last time, or we shall stick in the mud. Yet neither must we undertake a new world as catastrophic Utopians, and wreck our civilization in our hurry to mend it.
George Bernard Shaw -
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.
George Bernard Shaw -
The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not.
George Bernard Shaw -
It's well to be off with the Old Woman before you're on with the New.
George Bernard Shaw
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Social progress takes effect through the replacement of all institutions by new ones; and since every institution involves the recognition of the duty of conforming to it, progress must involve the repudiation of an established duty at every step.
George Bernard Shaw -
I am the most spontaneous speaker in the world because every word, every gesture, and every retort has been carefully rehearsed.
George Bernard Shaw -
What is virtue but the Trade Unionism of the married?
George Bernard Shaw -
The man with a toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty-stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man.
George Bernard Shaw -
Life is a constant becoming: all stages lead to the beginning of others.
George Bernard Shaw -
I'm not a teacher: only a fellow traveler of whom you asked the way. I pointed ahead - ahead of myself as well as you.
George Bernard Shaw
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Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.
George Bernard Shaw -
If I own a large part of Scotland, I can turn the people off the land practically into the sea or across the sea. I can take women in child-bearing and throw them into the snow and leave them there. That has been done. I can do it for no better reason than I think it is better to shoot deer on the land than allow people to live on it.
George Bernard Shaw -
Success covers a multitude of blunders.
George Bernard Shaw -
Get out of my way; for I won't stop for you.
George Bernard Shaw