George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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The ordinary man is an anarchist. He wants to do as he likes. He may want his neighbour to be governed, but he himself doesn't want to be governed. He is mortally afraid of government officials and policemen.
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When an apparent miracle happened.it proved divine mission to the credulous, and proved a contract with the devil to the skeptical.
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Home life is no more natural to us than a cage is natural to a cockatoo.
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All evolution in thought and conduct must at first appear as heresy and misconduct.
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God made the world as an artist and that is why the world must learn from its artists.
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Brigham Young lived to become immortal in history as an American Moses by leading his people through the wilderness into an unpromised land.
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Assasination on the scaffold is the worst form of assasination, because there it is invested with the approval of society.
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Religion is a good invention in times of stress.
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An actress is not a lady; at least, when she is, she is not an actress.
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In the arts of peace Man is a bungler.
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When a thing is funny, search it carefully for a hidden truth.
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Unless comedy touches me as well as amuses me, it leaves me with a sense of having wasted my evening. I go to the theatre to be moved to laughter, not to be tickled or bustled into it.
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A moderately honest man with a moderately faithful wife, moderate drinkers both, in a moderately healthy house: that is the true middle class unit.
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All very fine, Mary; but my old-fashioned common sense is better than your clever modern nonsense.
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I had patience with them for many ages: they tried me very sorely. They did terrible things: they embraced death, and said that eternal life was a fable. I stood amazed at the malice and destructiveness of the things I had made...
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You don't learn to hold your own in the world by standing on guard, but by attacking, and getting well hammered yourself.
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People become attached to their burdens sometimes more than the burdens are attached to them.
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Paradoxes are the only truths.
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Where there is no religion, hypocrisy becomes good taste.
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Rich men without convictions are more dangerous in modern society than poor women without chastity.
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Political necessities sometime turn out to be political mistakes.
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You will think less of the art, when you know the artist...
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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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What a man is depends on his character; but what he does, and what we think of what he does, depends on his circumstances.