George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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The notion that disarmament can put a stop to war is contradicted by the nearest dogfight.
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An English army led by an Irish general: that might be a match for a French army led by an Italian general.
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Vivisection is a social evil because if it advances human knowledge, it does so at the expense of human character.
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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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The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.
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A man of genius is not a man who sees more than other men do. On the contrary, it is very often found that he is absentminded andobserves much less than other people.... Why is it that the public have such an exaggerated respect for him--after he is dead? The reason is that the man of genius understands the importance of the few things he sees.
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Man is unique in that he has plans, purpose and goals which require the need for criteria of choice. The need for ethical value is within man whose future may largely be determined by the choice he make...
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There is the eternal war between those who are in the world for what they can get out of it and those who are in the world to make it a better place for everybody to live in.
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Paradoxes are the only truths.
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Most people go to their grave with their music inside them.
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I wish people would stop talking about my birthday.
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Shall I turn up the light for you? No, give me deeper darkness. Money is not made in the light.
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Be like the sun and meadow, which are not in the least concerned about the coming winter.
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Everything I eat has been proved by some doctor or other to be a deadly poison, and everything I don't eat has been proved to be indispensable for life. But I go marching on.
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If there was twenty ways of telling the truth and only one way of telling a lie, the Government would find it out. It's in the nature of governments to tell lies.
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I was a cannibal for twenty-five years. For the rest I have been a vegetarian. It was Shelley who first opened my eyes to the savagery of my diet.
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We know there is intention and purpose in the universe, because there is intention and purpose in us.
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Don't wait for the right opportunity: create it.
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What we are confronted with now is a growing perception that if we desire a certain type of civilization and culture we must exterminate the sort of people who do not fit into it.
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Rich men without convictions are more dangerous in modern society than poor women without chastity.
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If a woman rebels against high-heeled shoes, she should take care to do it in a very smart hat...
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As people get their opinions so largely from the newspapers they read... But the Press is not free, the newspapers are owned by rich men.
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Like all young men, you greatly exaggerate the difference between one young woman and another.
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If the governments devalue the currency in order to betray all creditors, you politely call this procedure 'inflation'.