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It is not true that men can be divided into absolutely honest persons and absolutely dishonest ones. Our honesty varies with the strain put on it.
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Hypocrisy ... is only bad when it is improperly used.
George Bernard Shaw
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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.
George Bernard Shaw -
Why should you call me to account for eating decently? If I battened on the scorched corpses of animals, you might well ask me why I did that. Why should I be filthy and inhuman? Why should I be an accomplice in the wholesale horror and degradation of the slaughter-house?
George Bernard Shaw -
Of the two lots, the woman's lot of perpetual motherhood, and the man's of perpetual babyhood, I prefer the man's.
George Bernard Shaw -
The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
George Bernard Shaw -
When the horrors of anarchy force us to set up laws that forbid us to fight and torture one another for sport, we still snatch at every excuse for declaring individuals outside the protection of law and torturing them to our hearts content.
George Bernard Shaw -
I like to quote myself frequently and often, it makes me sound much more intelligent than I actually am.
George Bernard Shaw
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Plato long ago pointed out the importance of being governed by men with sufficient sense of responsibility and comprehension of public duties to be very reluctant to undertake the work of governing.
George Bernard Shaw -
A mind of the caliber of mine cannot derive its nutrient from cows.
George Bernard Shaw -
Make money and the whole nation will conspire to call you a gentleman.
George Bernard Shaw -
A true artist will let his wife starve, his children go barefoot, his mother drudge for his living at seventy, sooner than work at anything but his art.
George Bernard Shaw -
Let no one suppose that the words doctor and patient can disguise from the parties the fact that they are employer and employee.
George Bernard Shaw -
Imitation is not just the sincerest form of flattery - it's the sincerest form of learning.
George Bernard Shaw
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If we have come to think that the nursery and the kitchen are the natural sphere of a woman, we have done so exactly as English children come to think that a cage is the natural sphere of a parrot: because they have never seen one anywhere else.
George Bernard Shaw -
I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.
George Bernard Shaw -
Man is the only animal which esteems itself rich in proportion to the number and voracity of its parasites.
George Bernard Shaw -
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...
George Bernard Shaw -
From Mozart I learnt to say important things in a conversational way.
George Bernard Shaw -
If any religion had a chance of ruling over England, nay Europe within the next hundred years, it could be Islam.
George Bernard Shaw
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Though all society is founded on intolerance, all improvement is founded on tolerance.
George Bernard Shaw -
Find enough clever things to say, and you're a Prime Minister; write them down and you're a Shakespeare.
George Bernard Shaw -
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.
George Bernard Shaw -
There are only two classes in good society in England: the equestrian classes and the neurotic classes.
George Bernard Shaw