George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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An actress is not a lady; at least, when she is, she is not an actress.
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We are compelled by the theory of God's already achieved perfection to make Him a devil as well as a god, because of the existenceof evil. The god of love, if omnipotent and omniscient, must be the god of cancer and epilepsy as well.... Whoever admits that anything living is evil must either believe that God is malignantly capable of creating evil, or else believe that God has made many mistakes in His attempts to make a perfect being.
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A thing that nobody believes cannot be proved too often.
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Those who can’t change their minds can’t change anything.
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There are two things necessary to Salvation.... Money and gunpowder.
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A statesman who confines himself to popular legislation - or, for the matter of that, a playwright who confines himself to popular plays - is like a blind man's dog who goes wherever the blind man pulls him, on the ground that both of them want to go to the same place.
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Most of the money given by rich people in "charity" is made up of conscience money, "ransom," political bribery, and bids for titles.... One buys moral credit by signing a cheque, which is easier than turning a prayer wheel.
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The practical question, then, is what to do with the children. Tolerate them at home we will not. Let them run loose in the streets we dare not until our streets become safe places for children, which, to our utter shame, they are not at present, though they can hardly be worse than some homes and some schools.
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Golf is typical capitalist luncay.
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A drama critic is a man who leaves no turn unstoned.
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Where there is no religion, hypocrisy becomes good taste.
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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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An index is a great leveller.
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Life is too short for men to take it seriously.
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Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody reads.
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We are the living graves of murdered beasts, slaughtered to satisfy our appetites. How can we hope in this world to attain the peace we say we are so anxious for?
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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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Science becomes dangerous only when it imagines that it has reached its goal.
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What God hath joined together no man shall put asunder: God will take care of that.
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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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The truth is the one thing that nobody will believe.
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When you prevent me from doing anything I want to do, that is persecution; when I prevent you from doing anything you want to do, that is law, order, and morals.
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Stimulate the phagocytes.
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Only in books has mankind known perfect truth, love and beauty.