George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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Cruelty must be whitewashed by a moral excuse, and pretense of reluctance.
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Make money and the whole nation will conspire to call you a gentleman.
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Pothinus: "Is it possible that Caesar, the conqueror of the world, has time to occupy himself with such a trifle as our taxes?" Caesar: "My friend, taxes are the chief business of a conqueror of the world.
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I like a bit of a mongrel myself, whether it's a man or a dog; they're the best for every day.
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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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There may be some doubt as to who are the best people to have charge of children, but there can be no doubt that parents are the worst.
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You see things; and you say 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?'
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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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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'm not a teacher: only a fellow traveler of whom you asked the way. I pointed ahead - ahead of myself as well as you.
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The world is populated in the main by people who should not exist...
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Marx's Kapital is not a treatise on socialism; it is a gerrymand against the bourgeoisie. It was supposed to be written for the working class, but the working man respects the bourgeoisie and wants to be a bourgeoisie. Marx never got a hold of him for a moment. It was the revolting sons of the bourgeoisie itself, like myself, that painted the flag red. The middle and upper classes are the revolutionary element in society. The proletariat is the conservative element.
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Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.
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I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people.
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You cannot learn to skate without making yourself ridiculous - the ice of life is slippery.
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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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When a lion meets another with a louder roar, the first lion thinks the last a bore.
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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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When you read a biography remember that the truth is never fit for publication.
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They have accepted the burden of eternal life. They have taken the agony from birth; and their life does not fail them even in the hour of their destruction.
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The art of government is the organisation of idolatry.
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For the pre-Darwinian age had come to be regarded as a Dark Age in which men still believed that the book of Genesis was a standard scientific treatise, and that the only additions to it were Galileo'a demonstration of Leonardo da Vinci's simple remark that the earth is a moon of the sun, Sir Humphrey Davy's invention of the safety lamp, the discovery of electricity, the application of steam to industrial purposes, and the penny post.
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What is virtue but the Trade Unionism of the married?
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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.