George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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An index is a great leveller.
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The censorship method ... is that of handing the job over to some frail and erring mortal man, and making him omnipotent on the assumption that his official status will make him infallible and omniscient.
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Murder and capital punishment are not opposites that cancel one another, but similars that breed their kind. It is the deed that teaches not the name we give it.
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When Satan makes impure verses, Allah sends a divine tune to cleanse them.
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Don't wait for the right opportunity: create it.
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I like flowers, I also like children, but I do not chop their heads off and keep them in bowls of water around the house.
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I have never admitted the right of an elderly author to alter the work of a young author, even when the young author happens to be his former self.
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We veneer civilization by doing unkind things in a kind way.
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It is not enough to know what is good: you must be able to do it.
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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.
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Our lives are shaped not as much by our experiences as by our expectations.
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When the master has come to do everything through the slave, the slave becomes his master, since he cannot live without him.
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Those who minister to poverty and disease are accomplices in the two worst of all the crimes.
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I sold flowers. I didn't sell myself. Now you've made a lady of me I'm not fit to sell anything else.
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The mathematician is fascinated with the marvelous beauty of the forms he constructs, and in their beauty he finds everlasting truth.
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Without music we shall surely perish of drink, morphia, and all sorts of artificial exaggerations of the cruder delights of the senses.
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Give women the vote, and in five years there will be a crushing tax on bachelors.
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Remember always that the least plain sister is the family beauty.
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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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Golf is typical capitalist luncay.
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Those who won't hesitate to vivisect, won't hesitate to lie about it as well.
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If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.
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As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death.
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The philosopher is Nature's pilot.