George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.
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Those who talk most about the blessings of marriage and the constancy of its vows are the very people who declare that if the chain were broken and the prisoners left free to choose, the whole social fabric would fly asunder. You cannot have the argument both ways. If the prisoner is happy, why lock him in? If he is not, why pretend that he is?
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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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If 'Pygmalion' is not good enough for your friends with its own verbal music, their talent must be altogether extraordinary.
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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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We must all share in the evils of the world or move to another planet.
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Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
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I like to quote myself frequently and often, it makes me sound much more intelligent than I actually am.
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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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Christmas is forced upon a reluctant and disgusted nation by the shopkeepers and the press; on its own merits it would wither and shrivel in the fiery breath of universal hatred.
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Fine art is the only teacher except torture.
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War does not decide who is right but who is left.
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You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
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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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The natural term of the affection of the human animal for its offspring is six years.
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Everybody who does not live in a prostitute's bed and on a diet of cocaine snow is called an ascetic nowadays.
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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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The problem with the press is that they can't tell the difference between a bicycle crash and the end of civilization.
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If only for a half hour a day, a child should do something serviceable to the community...
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All Artists are Anarchists.
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Patriotism is a word which always commemorates a robbery.
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If a woman can, by careful selection of a father and nourishment of herself, produce a citizen with efficient senses, sound organs and a good digestion, she should clearly be secured a sufficient reward for that natural service to make her willing to undertake and repeat it.
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Everyone can see that the people who hunt are the right people and the people who don't are the wrong ones.
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The truth is, hardly any of us have ethical energy enough for more than one really inflexible point of honor.