George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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If you're not producing as much as you consume, or perhaps a little more, then clearly we cannot use the big organization of our society for the purpose of keeping you alive, because your life does not benefit us, and it can't be of very much use to yourself.
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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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The notion that inspiration is something that happened thousands of years ago, and was then finished and done with. . . the theory that God retired from business at that period and has not been heard from since, is as silly as it is blasphemous.
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A sensitive boy's humiliations may be very good fun for ordinary thick-skinned grown-ups; but to the boy himself theyareso acute, so ignominious, that he cannot confess themcannot but deny them passionately.
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I am giving you examples of the fact that this creature man, who in his own selfish affairs is a coward to the backbone, will fight for an idea like a hero. . . . I tell you, gentlemen, if you can shew a man a piece of what he now calls God's work to do, and what he will later call by many new names, you can make him entirely reckless of the consequences to himself personally.
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Do you think that the things people make fools of themselves about are any less real and true than the things they behave sensibly about? They are more true: they are the only things that are true.
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You don't get tired of muffins, but you don't find inspiration in them.
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Women have been a ghastly nuisance in my life.
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Style is effectiveness of assertion.
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The notion that the colonel need be a better man than the private is as confused as the notion that the keystone need be stronger than the coping stone.
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Jesus remains unshaken as the practical man; and we stand exposed as the fools, the blunderers, the unpractical visionaries.
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The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.
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Very nice sort of place, Oxford, I should think, for people that like that sort of place. They teach you to be a gentleman there. In the polytechnic they teach you to be an engineer or such like. See?
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A pessimist is a man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it.
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There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it.
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There are no perfectly honorable men; but every true man has one main point of honor and a few minor ones.
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Caesar was a man of great common sense and good taste, meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.
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Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength and potency to accomplish something.
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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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The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.
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Never fret for an only son, the idea of failure will never occur to him.
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Well, upon my soul! You are not ashamed to stand there and confess yourself a disgusting drunkard.
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I really don't think I could consent to go to Heaven if I thought there were no animals there.
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Take the utmost care to get well born and well brought up.