George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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To make Democracy work, you need an aristocratic democracy. To make Aristocracy work, you need a democratic aristocracy.
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A tranquil woman can go on sewing longer than an angry man can go on fuming.
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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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Every man is a revolutionist concerning the thing he understands. For example, every person who has mastered a profession is a skeptic concerning it, and consequently a revolutionist.
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This planet is obviously being used as an insane asylum by other planets.
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It is necessary for the welfare of society that genius should be privileged to utter sedition, to blaspheme, to outrage good taste, to corrupt the youthful mind, and generally to scandalize one's uncles.
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Violence is the repartee of the illiterate.
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Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.
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The function of comedy is to dispelunconsciousness by turning the searchlight of the keenest moral and intellectual analysisright on to it.
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It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.
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Revolutions have never lightened the burden of tyranny; they have only shifted it to another shoulder.
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Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does.
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The word morality, if we met it in the Bible, would surprise us as much as the word telephone or motor car.
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Words are only postage stamps delivering the object for you to unwrap...
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Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
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As 99 per cent of English authors and 100 per cent of American ones authors are just such imbeciles, managers and publishers make a practice of asking for every right the author possesses.
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Don't waste time collecting other people's autographs; rather devote it to making your own autograph worth collecting.
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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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If you leave the smallest corner of your head vacant for a moment, other people's opinions will rush in from all quarters.
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You can feel nothing but a torment, and believe nothing but a lie. You will not raise your head to look at all the miracles of life that surround you; but you will run ten miles to see a fight or a death.
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The seven deadly sins... food, clothing, firing, rent, taxes, respectability and children. Nothing can lift those seven millstones from Man's neck but money; and the spirit cannot soar until the millstones are lifted.
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I dislike feeling at home when I am abroad.
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There is only one belief that can rob death of its sting and the grave of its victory. For without that you cannot be born again.
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Most people do not pray; they only beg.