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No child should be brought up to suppose that its food and clothes come down from heaven or are miraculously conjured from empty space by papa. Loathsome as we have made the idea of duty (like the idea of work) we must habituate children to a sense of repayable obligation to the community for what they consume and enjoy, and inculcate the repayment as a point of honor.
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No diet will remove all the fat from your body because the brain is entirely fat. Without a brain, you might look good, but all you could do is run for public office.
George Bernard Shaw
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A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
George Bernard Shaw -
What is wrong with priests and popes is that instead of being apostles and saints, they are nothing but empirics who say I know instead of I am learning, and pray for credulity and inertia as wise men pray for skepticism and activity.
George Bernard Shaw -
The duke inquires contemptuously whether his gamekeeper is the equal of the Astronomer Royal; but he insists that they shall both be hanged equally if they murder him.
George Bernard Shaw -
Well, I tell you again to get rid of your Constitution. But I suppose you won't do it. You have a good president and you have a bad Constitution, and the bad Constitution gets the better of the good President all the time. The end of it will be is that you might as well have an English Prime Minister.
George Bernard Shaw -
Custom will reconcile people to any atrocity; and fashion will drive them to acquire any custom.
George Bernard Shaw -
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.
George Bernard Shaw
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The roulette table pays nobody except him that keeps it. Nevertheless a passion for gaming is common, though a passion for keeping roulette tables is unknown.
George Bernard Shaw -
The best brought-up children are those who have seen their parents as they are. Hypocrisy is not the parent's first duty.
George Bernard Shaw -
Poverty blights whole cities; spreads horrible pestilences; strikes dead the very souls of all who come within sight, sound, or smell of it...
George Bernard Shaw -
Human beings are the only animals of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid.
George Bernard Shaw -
I can forgive Alfred Nobel for having invented dynamite, but only a fiend in human form could have invented the Nobel Prize.
George Bernard Shaw -
It is not necessary to replace a guillotined criminal: it is necessary to replace a guillotined social system.
George Bernard Shaw
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People get tired of everything, and of nothing sooner than of what they most like.
George Bernard Shaw -
Man's inhumanity to man is only surpassed by his cruelty to animals...
George Bernard Shaw -
There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it.
George Bernard Shaw -
As you say, I am honoured and famous and rich. But as I have to do all the hard work, and suffer an increasing multitude of fools gladly, it does not feel any better than being reviled, infamous and poor, as I used to be.
George Bernard Shaw -
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.
George Bernard Shaw -
The sex relation is not a personal relation. It can be irresistibly desired and rapturously consummated between persons who could not endure one another for a day in any other relation.
George Bernard Shaw
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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.
George Bernard Shaw -
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
George Bernard Shaw -
When a man teaches something he does not know to somebody else who has no aptitude for it, and gives him a certificate of proficiency, the latter has completed the education of a gentleman.
George Bernard Shaw -
My way of joking is to tell the truth. It's the funniest joke in the world.
George Bernard Shaw