George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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We are not taught to think decently on sex subjects, and consequently we have no language for them except indecent language.
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Find enough clever things to say, and you're a Prime Minister; write them down and you're a Shakespeare.
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There is at bottom only one genuinely scientific treatment for all diseases, and that is to stimulate the phagocytes.
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They tell me that So-and-So, who does not write prefaces, is no charlatan. Well, I am. I first caught the ear of the British public on a cart in Hyde Park, to the blaring of brass bands,and this . . . because . . . I am a natural-born mountebank.
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Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire.
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Women have been a ghastly nuisance in my life.
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Socialism, reduced to its simplest legal and practical expression, means the complete discarding of the institution of private property by transforming it into public property, and the division of the resultant public income equally and indiscriminately among the entire population.
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Popular Christianity has for its emblem a gibbet, for its chief sensation a sanginary execution after torture, for its central mystery is an insane vengeance bought off by a trumpery expiation. But there is a nobler and profounder Christianity which affirms the sacred mystery of equality and forbids the glaring futility and folly of vengeance.
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Justice is justice though it's always delayed and finally done only by mistake.
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Our prejudices are so deeply rooted that we never think of them as prejudices but call them common sense.
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I have my own soul. My own spark of divine fire.
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Schools and schoolmasters, as we have them today, are not popular as places of education and teachers, but rather prisons and turnkeys in which children are kept to prevent them disturbing and chaperoning their parent.
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Let a short Act of Parliament be passed, placing all street musicians outside the protection of the law, so that any citizen may assail them with stones, sticks, knives, pistols or bombs without incurring any penalties.
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All industries are brought under the control of such people [film producers] by Capitalism. If the capitalists let themselves be seduced from their pursuit of profits to the enchantments of art, they would be bankrupt before they knew where they were. You cannot combine the pursuit of money with the pursuit of art.
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Life must not cease. That comes before everything. It is silly to say you do not care. You do care. It is that care that will prompt your imagination; inflame your desires; make your will irresistible; and create out of nothing.
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If you take too long in deciding what to do with your life, you'll find you've done it.
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When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.
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Englishmen never will be slaves; they are free to do whatever the government and public opinion allow them.
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A learned man is an idler who kills time by study.
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The vilest abortionist is he who attempts to mould a child's character.
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Happy is the man who can make a living by his hobby...
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Though I can make my extravaganzas appear credible, I cannot make the truth appear so.
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The degree of tolerance attainable at any moment depends on the strain under which society is maintaining its cohesion.
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There is only one universal passion fear.