George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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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.
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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.
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You must not suppose, because I am a man of letters, that I never tried to earn an honest living.
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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.
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My method is to take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say, and then to say it with the utmost levity.
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You are going to let the fear of poverty govern you life and your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live.
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The Italians must allow us to slaughter the Momands, because, if we do not kill the warlike hillmen, they will kill us. And we must allow the Italians to slaughter the Danakils for the same reason.
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I am enclosing two tickets to the first night of my new play; bring a friend... if you have one.
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No child should be brought up to suppose that its food and clothes come down from heaven or are miraculously conjured from empty space by papa. Loathsome as we have made the idea of duty (like the idea of work) we must habituate children to a sense of repayable obligation to the community for what they consume and enjoy, and inculcate the repayment as a point of honor.
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We learn from history that we learn nothing from history.
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I never expect a soldier to think.
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Sexually,Woman is Nature's contrivance for perpetuating its highest achievement.
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Undershaft: My religion? Well, my dear, I am a Millionaire. That is my religion.
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Tradition will accustom people to any atrocity...
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An American has no sense of privacy. He does not know what it means. There is no such thing in the country.
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This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap; the being a force of Nature instead of a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy.
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We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.
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Those who do not know how to live must make a merit of dying.
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A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.
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In your dread of dictators you established a state of society in which every ward boss is a dictator, every private employer a dictator, every financier a dictator, all with the livelihood of the workers at his mercy, and no public responsibility.
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I have always held the religion of Muhammad in high estimation because of its wonderful vitality. It is the only religion which appears to me to possess that assimilating capability to the changing phase of existence which can make itself appeal to every age... I have studied him - the wonderful man, and in my opinion far from being an Anti-Christ he must be called the Saviour of Humanity.
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Chess is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever, when they are only wasting their time.
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The salvation of the world depends on the men who will not take evil good-humouredly, and whose laughter destroys the fool instead of encouraging him.
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The love of economy is the root of all virtue.