George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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A man ought to be able to be fond of his wife without making a fool of himself about her.
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The devil can quote Shakespeare for his own purpose.
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In truth , mankind cannot be saved from without, by schoolmasters or any other sort of masters: it can only be lamed and enslaved by them. It is said that if you wash a cat it will never again wash itself. This may or may not be true : what is certain is that if you teach a man anything he will never learn it; and if you cure him of a disease he will be unable to cure himself the next time it attacks him.
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Reformers have the idea that change can be achieved by brute sanity.
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Just as the historian can teach no real history until he has cured his readers of the romantic delusion that the greatness of a queen consists in her being a pretty woman and having her head cut off, so the playwright of the first order can do nothing with his audience until he has cured them of looking at the stage through the keyhole, and sniffing round the theatre as prurient people sniff round the divorce court.
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Those who understand evil pardon it.
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Treat persons who profess to be able to cure disease as you treat fortune tellers.
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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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Dogmatic toleration is nonsense: I would no more tolerate the teaching of Calvinism to children if I had power to persecute it than the British Raj tolerated suttee in India. Every civilized authority must draw a line between the tolerable and the intolerable.
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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.
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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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Of the two lots, the woman's lot of perpetual motherhood, and the man's of perpetual babyhood, I prefer the man's.
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I want to be all used up when I die.
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When commenting on the turmoil and disorder of the world, If the other planets are inhabited, they must be using this earth as their insane asylum.
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While browsing in a second-hand bookshop one day, George Bernard Shaw was amused to find a copy of one of his own works which he himself had inscribed for a friend: "To ----, with esteem, George Bernard Shaw." He immediately purchased the book and returned it to the friend with a second inscription: "With renewed esteem, George Bernard Shaw.
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Freedom, my good girl, means being able to count on how other people will behave.
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Atrocities are not less atrocities when they occur in laboratories and are called medical research.
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In a battle all you need to make you fight is a little hot blood and the knowledge that it's more dangerous to lose than to win.
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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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From a very early age, I've had to interrupt my education to go to school.
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Every baby has to discover more in the first years of its life than Roger Bacon ever discovered in his laboratory.
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Capitalism justified itself and was adopted as an economic principle on the express ground that it provides selfish motives for doing good, and that human beings will do nothing except for selfish motives...
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Stop being Jews and start being human beings.
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The early Christian rules of life were not made to last, because the early Christians did not believe that the world itself was going to last.