George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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There is in man a specific lust for cruelty which infects even his passion of pity and makes it savage.
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I don't like the idea of killing my fellow creatures in order to eat their dead bodies.
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I find it easy to forgive the man who invented a devilish instrument like dynamite, but how can one ever forgive the diabolical mind that invented the Nobel Prize in Literature?
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Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history.
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The notion that disarmament can put a stop to war is contradicted by the nearest dogfight.
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I have to live for others and not for myself: that's middle-class morality.
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The notion that persons should be safe from extermination as long as they do not commit willful murder, or levy war against the Crown, or kidnap, or throw vitriol, is not only to limit social responsibility unnecessarily, and to privilege the large range of intolerable misconduct that lies outside them, but to divert attention from the essential justification for extermination, which is always incorrigible social incompatibility and nothing else.
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The only time my education was interrupted was when I was in school.
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Fine art is the subtlest, the most seductive, the most effective instrument of moral propaganda in the world, excepting only the example of personal conduct; and I waive even this exception in favor of the art of the stage, because it works by exhibiting examples of personal conduct made intelligible and moving to crowds of unobservant unreflecting people to whom real life means nothing.
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Hollywood keeps before its child audiences a string of glorified young heroes, everyone of whom is an unhesitating and violent Anarchist. His one answer to everything that annoys him or disparages his country or his parents or his young lady or his personal code of manly conduct is to give the offender a "sock" in the jaw.... My observation leads me to believe that it is not the virtuous people who are good at socking jaws.
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Rising inequality isn’t about who has the knowledge; it’s about who has the power.
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The natural term of the affection of the human animal for its offspring is six years.
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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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We're human beings we are - all of us - and that's what people are liable to forget. Human beings don't like peace and goodwill and everybody loving everybody else. However much they may think they do, they don't really because they're not made like that. Human beings love eating and drinking and loving and hating. They also like showing off, grabbing all they can, fighting for their rights and bossing anybody who'll give them half a chance.
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A serious illness or a death advertises the doctor exactly as a hanging advertises the barrister who defended the person hanged.
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Better see rightly on a pound a week than squint on a million.
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If all the statisticians in the world were laid head to toe, they wouldn't be able to reach a conclusion
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Men are always thinking that they are going to do something grandly wicked to their enemies; but when it comes to the point, really bad men are just as rare as really good ones.
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Though I can make my extravaganzas appear credible, I cannot make the truth appear so.
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Property, said Proudhon, is theft. This is the only perfect truism that has been uttered on the subject.
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In gambling the many must lose in order that the few may win.
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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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We call the one side [of humanity] religion, and we call the other science. Religion is always right. ... Science is always wrong; it is the very artifice of men. Science can never solve one problem without raising ten more problems.
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First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.