George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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The world is populated in the main by people who should not exist...
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I want to be all used up when I die.
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The writer who aims at producing the platitudes which are "not for an age, but for all time" has his reward in being unreadable inall ages....
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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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Fashions are the only induced epidemics, proving that epidemics can be induced by tradesmen.
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Clever and attractive women do not want to vote; they are willing to let men govern as long as they govern men.
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Nietzche . . . he was a confirmed Life Force worshipper. It was he who raked up the Superman, who is as old as Prometheus; and the 20th century will run after this newest of the old crazes when it gets tired of the world, the flesh, and your humble servant.
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If a group of beings from another planet were to land on Earth - beings who considered themselves as superior to you as you feel yourself to be to other animals - would you concede them the rights over you that you assume over other animals?
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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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It is in the hour of trial that a man finds his true profession.
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Think what cowards men would be if they had to bear children. Women are altogether a superior species.
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Of the three official objects of our prison system: vengeance, deterrence, and reformation of the criminal, only one is achieved; and that is the one which is nakedly abominable.
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The danger of crippling thought, the danger of obstructing the formation of the public mind by specially suppressing ... representations is far greater than any real danger that there is from such representations.
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Newspaper : A device unable to distinguish between a bicycle accident and the collapse of civilisation.
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We are all victims of the violence that animals suffer... their liberation is also our liberation.
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A soldier is an anachronism of which we must get rid.
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You practically do not use semicolons at all. This is a symptom of mental defectiveness, probably induced by camp life.
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All sorts of bodily diseases are produced by half-used minds.
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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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I choose not to make a graveyard of my body for the rotting corpses of dead animals.
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Revelations: A curious record of the visions of a drug addict.
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A man who desires to get married should know everything or nothing.
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An asylum for the sane would be empty in America.
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The British churchgoer prefers a severe preacher because he thinks a few home truths will do his neighbors no harm.