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I tell you that as long as I can conceive something better than myself I cannot be easy unless I am striving to bring it into existence or clearing the way for it.
George Bernard Shaw -
The minority is sometimes right; the majority always wrong.
George Bernard Shaw
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Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.
George Bernard Shaw -
When we know what God is, we shall be gods ourselves.
George Bernard Shaw -
Even under the most perfect Social Democracy we should, without Communism, still be living like hogs, except that each hog would get his fair share of grub.... Whilst we are hogs, let us at least be well-fed, healthy, reciprocally useful hogs, instead of--well, instead of the sort we are at present.
George Bernard Shaw -
Men are not governed by justice, but by law or persuasion. When they refuse to be governed by law or persuasion, they have to be governed by force or fraud, or both.
George Bernard Shaw -
The goal of an artist is to create the definitive work that cannot be surpassed.
George Bernard Shaw -
Write your Sad times in Sand, Write your Good times in Stone.
George Bernard Shaw
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What the world calls originality is only an unaccustomed method of tickling it.
George Bernard Shaw -
Life is a flame that is always burning itself out; but it catches fire again every time a child is born. Life is greater than death, and hope than despair.
George Bernard Shaw -
The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation.
George Bernard Shaw -
There is nothing so bad or so good that you will not find Englishmen doing it; but you will never find an Englishman in the wrong. He does everything on principle. He fights you on patriotic principles; he robs you on business principles; he enslaves you on imperial principles; he bullies you on manly principles; he supports his king on loyal principles and cuts off his king's head on republican principles.
George Bernard Shaw -
Financiers live in a world of illusion. They count on something which they call the capital of the country, which has no existence.
George Bernard Shaw -
I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.
George Bernard Shaw
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Democracy means the organization of society for the benefit and at the expense of everybody indiscriminately and not for the benefit of a privileged class.
George Bernard Shaw -
I can wait: waiting and patience mean nothing to the eternal. I gave the woman the greatest of gifts: curiosity. By that her seed has been saved from my wrath; for I also am curious; and I have waited always to see what they will do tomorrow.
George Bernard Shaw -
You must not suppose, because I am a man of letters, that I never tried to earn an honest living.
George Bernard Shaw -
My method is to take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say, and then to say it with the utmost levity.
George Bernard Shaw -
Criminals do not die by the hands of the law. They die by the hands of other men.
George Bernard Shaw -
Statistics show that of those who contract the habit of eating, very few survive.
George Bernard Shaw
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To me the sole hope of human salvation lies in teaching Man to regard himself as an experiment in the realization of God, to regard his hands as God's hand, his brain as God's brain, his purpose as God's purpose. He must regard God as a helpless Longing, which longed him into existence by its desperate need for an executive organ.
George Bernard Shaw -
We learn from history that we learn nothing from history.
George Bernard Shaw -
Even the youngest of us may be wrong sometimes.
George Bernard Shaw -
Love is a simple thing and a deep thing: it is an act of life and not an illusion. Art is an illusion.
George Bernard Shaw