George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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Opera is when a tenor and soprano want to make love, but are prevented from doing so by a baritone.
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The heretic is always better dead. And mortal eyes cannot distinguish the saint from the heretic.
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Our laws make law impossible; our liberties destroy all freedom; our property is organized robbery; our morality an impudent hypocrisy; our wisdom is administered by inexperienced or mal-experienced dupes; our power wielded by cowards and weaklings; and our honour false in all its points. I am an enemy of the existing order for good reasons...
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If you leave the smallest corner of your head vacant for a moment, other people's opinions will rush in from all quarters.
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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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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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Morality is not respectability.
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Reformers have the idea that change can be achieved by brute sanity.
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When a lion meets another with a louder roar, the first lion thinks the last a bore.
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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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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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I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.
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The art of government is the organization of idolatry. The bureaucracy consists of functionaries; the aristocracy, of idols; the democracy, of idolaters. The populace cannot understand the bureaucracy: it can only worship the national idols.
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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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A man without an address is a vagabond; a man with two addresses is a libertine.
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Some of the things Mussolini has done, and some that he is threatening to do go further in the direction of Socialism than the English Labour Party could yet venture if they were in power.'
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Even if animal experimentation was proved to be of value, it would be morally wrong.
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I ask you, what am I? I’m one of the undeserving poor: thats what I am. Think of what that means to a man.
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I wouldn't have ate it, only I'm too lady-like to take it out of my mouth.
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If you would stick to the concrete, and put your discoveries in the form of entertaining anecdotes about your adventures with women, your conversation would be easier to follow.
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You know well I couldn't bear to live with a low common man after you two; and it's wicked and cruel of you to insult me by pretending I could.
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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.
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The devil can quote Shakespeare for his own purpose.
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Youth, which is forgiven everything, forgives itself nothing: age, which forgives itself everything, is forgiven nothing.