George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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Deep knowledge is not knowledge of the thing itself, but knowledge of a thing like the thing. Then, you gain not one knowledge, but two knowledges. Of the thing. And of the original thing with is like the thing. Which is the barbarism of the privileged class.
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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.
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If you teach a man anything, he will never learn.
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Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.
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All government is cruel; for nothing is so cruel as impunity.
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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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To make Democracy work, you need an aristocratic democracy. To make Aristocracy work, you need a democratic aristocracy.
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Most of my recent plays were written in the railway train between Hatfield and Kings Cross. I write anywhere, on the top of omnibuses or wherever I may be; it is all the same to me.
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Morals are a luxury of the rich.
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Life is not meant to be easy, my child; but take courage: it can be delightful.
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I never climbed any ladder: I have achieved eminence by sheer gravitation.
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I am a sort of collector of religions: and the curious thing is that I find I can believe in them all.
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Now of all the idealist abominations that make society pestiferous I doubt if there be any so mean as that of forcing self-sacrifice on a woman under the pretense that she likes it.
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What, or who, led you to take up photography, and about what date ? George Bernard Shaw – I always wanted to draw and paint. I had no literary ambition. I aspired to be a Michelangelo, not a Shakespeare. But I could not draw well enough to satisfy myself; and the instruction I could get was worse than useless. So when dry plates and push buttons came into the market I bought a box camera and began pushing the button. It was in 1898.
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The capacity of any conqueror is more likely than not to be an illusion produced by the incapacity of his adversary.
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It is ridiculous to say that art has nothing to do with morality. What is true is that the artist's business is not that of the policeman.
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I had not achieved a success; but I provoked an uproar; and the sensation was so agreeable that I resolved to try again.
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Though all society is founded on intolerance, all improvement is founded on tolerance.
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New opinions often appear first as jokes and fancies, then as blasphemies and treason, then as questions open to discussion, and finally as established truths.
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Security, the chief pretense of civilization, cannot exist where the worst of dangers, the danger of poverty, hangs over everyone's head.
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All censorships exist to prevent anyone from challenging current conceptions and existing institutions. All progress is initiated by challenging current conceptions, and executed by supplanting existing institutions. Consequently, the first condition of progress is the removal of censorship.
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I'm an atheist and I thank God for it.
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Newspaper : A device unable to distinguish between a bicycle accident and the collapse of civilisation.
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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.