George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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Of the three official objects of our prison system: vengeance, deterrence, and reformation of the criminal, only one is achieved; and that is the one which is nakedly abominable.
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It's all that the young can do for the old, to shock them and keep them up to date.
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I want to be all used up when I die.
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Clever and attractive women do not want to vote; they are willing to let men govern as long as they govern men.
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When will we realize that the fact that we can become accustomed to anything, however disgusting at first, makes it necessary to examine carefully everything we have become accustomed to.
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I appeal to the chemists to discover a humane gas that will kill instantly and painlessly. In short- a gentlemanly gas deadly by all means, but humane, not cruel.
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Get out of my way; for I won't stop for you.
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Every dream is a prophecy: every jest is an earnest in the womb of Time.
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Obedience simulates subordination as fear of the police simulates honesty.
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Success covers a multitude of blunders.
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I am a Christian. That obliges me to be a Communist.
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I am the most spontaneous speaker in the world because every word, every gesture, and every retort has been carefully rehearsed.
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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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Self-sacrifice enables us to sacrifice other people without blushing.
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My schooling did me a great deal of harm and no good whatever; it was simply dragging a child's soul through the dirt.
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He who confuses political liberty with freedom and political equality with similarity has never thought for five minutes about either.
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Every man is a revolutionist concerning the thing he understands. For example, every person who has mastered a profession is a skeptic concerning it, and consequently a revolutionist.
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Absolute honesty is as absurd an abstraction as an absolute temperature or an absolute value.
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You're not a man, you're a machine.
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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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Think what cowards men would be if they had to bear children. Women are altogether a superior species.
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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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The novelties of one generation are only the resuscitated fashions of the generation before last.
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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.