George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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Every step of progress means a duty repudiated, and a scripture torn up.
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What's the use of money if you have to earn it.
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Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous.
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Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire.
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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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We are members one of another; so that you cannot injure or help your neighbor without injuring or helping yourself.
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But a mother is like a broomstick or like the sun in the heavens, it does not matter which as far as one's knowledge of her is concerned: the broomstick is there and the sun is there; and whether the child is beaten by it or warmed and enlightened by it, it accepts it as a fact in nature, and does not conceive it as having had youth, passions, and weaknesses, or as still growing, yearning, suffering, and learning.
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Our necessities are few, but our wants are endless.
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A married man is a man with a past, while a bachelor is a man with a future.
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When you loved me I gave you the whole sun and stars to play with. I gave you eternity in a single moment, strength of the mountains in one clasp of your arms, and the volume of all the seas in one impulse of your soul.
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The faults of the burglar are the qualities of the financier.
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What is really important in Man is the part of him that we do not understand. Of much of it we are not even conscious, just as we are not normally conscious of keeping up our circulation by our heart-pump, though if we neglect it we die.
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Religion is a great force - the only real motive force in the world; but what you fellows don't understand is that you must get at a man through his own religion and not through yours.
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You can lose a man like that by your own death, but not by his.
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I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake.
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An Irishman's imagination never lets him alone, never convinces him, never satisfies him; but it makes him that he can't face reality nor deal with it nor handle it nor conquer it: he can only sneer at them that do, and be 'agreeable to strangers', like a good-for-nothing woman on the streets.
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To me the sole hope of human salvation lies in teaching.
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Science is always simple and always profound. It is only the half-truths that are dangerous.
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One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't.
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If you cannot attain knowledge without torturing a dog, you must do without knowledge.
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I do not know what I think until I write it.
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Rebecca West can handle a pen as brilliantly as ever I could and much more savagely.
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Of all the damnable waste of human life that ever was invented, clerking is the worst.
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You do not settle whether an argument is justified by merely showing that it is of some use. The distinction is not between useful and useless experiments but between barbarous and civilized behaviour.