George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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For four wicked centuries the world has dreamed this foolish dream of efficiency; and the end is not yet. But the end will come.
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It is in the hour of trial that a man finds his true profession.
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Do you think that the things people make fools of themselves about are any less real and true than the things they behave sensibly about? They are more true: they are the only things that are true.
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The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and about all time.
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I want to destroy ownership in order that possession and enjoyment may be raised to the highest point in every section of the community.
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A great social reformer.
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Though the Life Force supplies us with its own purpose, it has no other brains to work with than those it has painfully and imperfectly evolved in our heads.
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There is a disease to which plays as well as men become liable with advancing years. In men it is called doting, in plays dating.The more topical the play the more it dates.
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Hatred is the coward's revenge for being intimidated.
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I do not, like the Fundamentalists, believe that creation stopped six thousand years ago after a week of hard work. Creation is going on all the time.
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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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Only in the problem play is there any real drama, because drama is no mere setting up of the camera to nature: it is the presentation in parable of the conflict between Man's will and his environment: in a word, of problem.
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The real Brahms is nothing more than a sentimental voluptuary. rather tiresomely addicted to dressing himself up as Handel or Beethoven and making a prolonged and intolerable noise.
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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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Gentle Jesus, meek and mild' is a snivelling modern invention, with no warrant in the gospels.
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A family is a tyranny ruled over by it's weakest member.
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Shall I turn up the light for you? No, give me deeper darkness. Money is not made in the light.
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It is not disbelief that is dangerous to our society; it is belief.
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All my life affection has been showered upon me, and every forward step I have made has been taken in spite of it.
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A man who desires to get married should know everything or nothing.
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Stop being Jews and start being human beings.
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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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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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You are all fundamentalists with a top dressing of science. That is why you are the stupidest of conservatives and reactionists in politics and the most bigoted of obstructionists in science itself. When it comes to getting a move on you are all of the same opinion: stop it, flog it, hang it, dynamite it, stamp it out.