George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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In your dread of dictators you established a state of society in which every ward boss is a dictator, every private employer a dictator, every financier a dictator, all with the livelihood of the workers at his mercy, and no public responsibility.
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The best brought-up children are those who have seen their parents as they are. Hypocrisy is not the parent's first duty.
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'He must be greatly changed. Has he attained the seventh degree of concentration?'
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We learn from history that we learn nothing from history.
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Sexually,Woman is Nature's contrivance for perpetuating its highest achievement.
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We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.
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I never expect a soldier to think.
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The roulette table pays nobody except him that keeps it. Nevertheless a passion for gaming is common, though a passion for keeping roulette tables is unknown.
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Those who do not know how to live must make a merit of dying.
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An American has no sense of privacy. He does not know what it means. There is no such thing in the country.
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Never believe anything a writer tells you about himself. A man comes to believe in the end the lies he tells himself about himself.
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No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means.
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The real moment of success is not the moment apparent to the crowd.
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The buried truth germinates and breaks through to the light.
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The salvation of the world depends on the men who will not take evil good-humouredly, and whose laughter destroys the fool instead of encouraging him.
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All progress means war with Society.
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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.
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Discussing vaccination with a doctor is like discussing vegetarianism with a butcher.
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A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.
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The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else.
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Give a man health and a course to steer, and he'll never stop to trouble about whether he's happy or not.
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All progress depends upon the unreasonable person.
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The public want actresses, because they think all actresses bad. They don't want music or poetry because they know that both are good. So actors and actresses thrive and poets and composers starve.
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Female murderers get sheaves of offers of marriage.