George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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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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My way of joking is to tell the truth. It's the funniest joke in the world.
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If you begin by sacrificing yourself to those you love, you will end by hating those to whom you have sacrificed yourself.
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To disbelieve in marriage is easy: to love a married woman is easy; but to betray a comrade, to be disloyal to a host, to break the covenant of bread and salt, is impossible.
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I believe in the discipline of silence, and could talk for hours about it.
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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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If associations to control burglary and murder were tolerated we should take it for granted that the members should all be burglers and murderers.
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Perhaps woman's art is of woman's life a thing apart, 'tis man's whole existence; just as love is said to be the reverse - though it isn't.
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Youth is wasted on the young.
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If any religion had a chance of ruling over England, nay Europe within the next hundred years, it could be Islam.
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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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No elaboration of physical or moral accomplishment can atone for the sin of parasitism.
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The man who has graduated from the flogging block at Eton to the bench from which he sentences the garrotter to be flogged is the same social product as the garrotter who has been kicked by his father and cuffed by his mother until he has grown strong enough to throttle and rob the rich citizen whose money he desires.
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A revolutionist is one who desires to discard the existing social order and try another.
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If all the Churches of Europe closed their doors until the drums ceased rolling they would act as a most powerful reminder that though the glory of war is a famous and ancient glory, it is not the final glory of God.
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The first condition of progress is the removal of censorship.
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It is easy - terribly easy - to shake a man's faith in himself. To take advantage of that to break a man's spirit is devil's work.
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A woman whose face looked as if it had been made of sugar and someone had licked it.
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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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THE HE-ANCIENT: When a thing is funny, search it for a hidden truthSTREPHON: Yes; and take all the fun out of it.
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The play was a great success, but audience was a dismal failure.
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I heard your prayers Thank God it's all over!
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We cut the throat of a calf and hang it up by the heels to bleed to death so that our veal cutlet may be white; we nail geese to a board and cram them with food because we like the taste of liver disease; we tear birds to pieces to decorate our women's hats; we mutilate domestic animals for no reason at all except to follow an instinctively cruel fashion; and we connive at the most abominable tortures in the hope of discovering some magical cure for our own diseases by them.
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My schooling not only failed to teach me what it professed to be teaching, but prevented me from being educated to an extent which infuriates me when I think of all I might have learned at home by myself.