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If a man is indolent, let him be poor. If he is drunken, let him be poor.... Also--somewhat inconsistently--blessed are the poor!
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In the arts of life main invents nothing; but in the arts of death he outdoes Nature herself, and produces by chemistry and machinery all the slaughter of plague, pestilence and famine. ... There is nothing in Man's industrial machinery but his greed and sloth: his heart is in his weapons.
George Bernard Shaw
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The apparent multiplication of gods is bewildering at the first glance, but you soon discover that they are the same GOD. There is always one uttermost God who defies personification. This makes Hinduism the most tolerant religion in the world, because its one transcendent God includes all possible gods. In fact Hinduism is so elastic and so subtle that the most profound Methodist, and crudest idolater, are equally at home with it.
George Bernard Shaw -
The secret to success is to offend the greatest number of people.
George Bernard Shaw -
You cannot be a hero without being a coward.
George Bernard Shaw -
The test to which all methods of treatment are finally brought is whether they are lucrative to doctors or not.
George Bernard Shaw -
When we want to read of the deeds that are done for love, whither do we turn? To the murder column.
George Bernard Shaw -
Discussing vaccination with a doctor is like discussing vegetarianism with a butcher.
George Bernard Shaw
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If you begin by sacrificing yourself to those you love, you will end by hating those to whom you have sacrificed yourself.
George Bernard Shaw -
Youth is wasted on the young.
George Bernard Shaw -
Ah-ah-ah-ah-ow-ow-oo-oo!!! I ain't dirty: I washed me face and hands afore I come, I did!
George Bernard Shaw -
Undershaft: My religion? Well, my dear, I am a Millionaire. That is my religion.
George Bernard Shaw -
It exasperated her to think that the dungeon in which she had languished for so many unhappy years had been unlocked all the time, and that the impulses she had so carefully struggled with and stifled for the sake of keeping well with society, were precisely those by which alone she could have come into any sort of sincere human contact.
George Bernard Shaw -
I don't want to talk grammar, I want to talk like a lady.
George Bernard Shaw
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If parents would only realize how they bore their children!
George Bernard Shaw -
Give a man health and a course to steer, and he'll never stop to trouble about whether he's happy or not.
George Bernard Shaw -
The love of economy is the root of all virtue.
George Bernard Shaw -
If all the Churches of Europe closed their doors until the drums ceased rolling they would act as a most powerful reminder that though the glory of war is a famous and ancient glory, it is not the final glory of God.
George Bernard Shaw -
Set me anything to do as a task, and it is inconceivable the desire I have to do something else.
George Bernard Shaw -
Never believe anything a writer tells you about himself. A man comes to believe in the end the lies he tells himself about himself.
George Bernard Shaw
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The buried truth germinates and breaks through to the light.
George Bernard Shaw -
Perhaps woman's art is of woman's life a thing apart, 'tis man's whole existence; just as love is said to be the reverse - though it isn't.
George Bernard Shaw -
The first condition of progress is the removal of censorship.
George Bernard Shaw -
No diet will remove all the fat from your body because the brain is entirely fat. Without a brain, you might look good, but all you could do is run for public office.
George Bernard Shaw