George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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I enjoy convalescence. It is the part that makes the illness worth while.
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I can't control what life did to me, but I can control how I react. Therein lies the difference.
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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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A socialist is somebody who doesn't have anything, and is ready to divide it up equally among everybody.
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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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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!
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Morality is not respectability.
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The surest way to ruin a man who doesn't know how to handle money is to give him some.
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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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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 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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The more a man possesses over and above what he uses, the more careworn he becomes.
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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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Take care to get what you like or you will be forced to like what you get.
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Never waste jealousy on a real man: it is the imaginary man that supplants us all in the long run.
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You are all alike, you respectable people. You can't tell me the bursting strain of a ten-inch gun, which is a very simple matter;but you all think you can tell me the bursting strain of a man under temptation. You daren't handle high explosives; but you're all ready to handle honesty and truth and justice and the whole duty of man, and kill one another at that game. What a country! What a world!
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The confusion of marriage with morality has done more to destroy the conscience of the human race than any other single error.
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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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Martyrdom is the only path to immortality that requires no talent whatsoever.
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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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I lay my eternal curse on whomsoever shall now or at any time hereafter make schoolbooks of my works and make me hated as Shakespeare is hated. My plays were not designed as instruments of torture. All the schools that lust after them get this answer, and will never get any other.
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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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Capitalism drives the employers to do their worst to the employed, and the employed to do the least for them. And it boasts all the time of the incentive it provides to both to do their best! . . . The reason the Capitalist system has worked so far without jamming for more than a few months at a time, and then only in places, is that it has not yet succeeded in making a conquest of human nature so complete that everybody acts on strictly business principles.
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Those who understand evil pardon it.