George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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Set me anything to do as a task, and it is inconceivable the desire I have to do something else.
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All progress means war with Society.
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I have always held the religion of Muhammad in high estimation because of its wonderful vitality. It is the only religion which appears to me to possess that assimilating capability to the changing phase of existence which can make itself appeal to every age... I have studied him - the wonderful man, and in my opinion far from being an Anti-Christ he must be called the Saviour of Humanity.
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Chess is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever, when they are only wasting their time.
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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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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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The buried truth germinates and breaks through to the light.
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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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A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.
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The secret to success is to offend the greatest number of people.
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Reason enslaves all whose minds are not strong enough to master her.
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Even a vortex is a vortex in something. You can't have a whirlpool without water; and you can't have a vortex without gas, or molecules or atoms or ions or electrons or something, not nothing.
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'He must be greatly changed. Has he attained the seventh degree of concentration?'
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Marriage is good enough for the lower classes: they have facilities for desertion that are denied to us.
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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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Discussing vaccination with a doctor is like discussing vegetarianism with a butcher.
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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.
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It is not necessary to replace a guillotined criminal: it is necessary to replace a guillotined social system.
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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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The test to which all methods of treatment are finally brought is whether they are lucrative to doctors or not.
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You cannot be a hero without being a coward.
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Youth is wasted on the young.