George Bernard Shaw Quotes, Institutions Quotes

Marriage is the most licentious of human institutions.

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When we know what God is, we shall be gods ourselves.

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There is only one belief that can rob death of its sting and the grave of its victory. For without that you cannot be born again.

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The faults of the burglar are the qualities of the financier.

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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.

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If you go to Heaven without being naturally qualified for it you will not enjoy yourself there.

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We should find ourselves committed to killing a great many people whom we now leave living, and to leave living a great many people whom we at present kill. We should have to get rid of all ideas about capital punishment.

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Reviewing has one advantage over suicide: in suicide you take it out on yourself; in reviewing you take it out on other people.

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The open mind never acts: when we have done our utmost to arrive at a reasonable conclusion, we still must close our minds for the moment with a snap, and act dogmatically on our conclusions.

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Disobedience, the rarest and most courageous of the virtues, is seldom distinguished from neglect, the laziest and commonest of the vices.

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Dancing is a very crude attempt to get into the rhythm of life.

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You may well ask me why...I took the time to write [books]. I can only reply that I do not know. There was no why about it. I had to: that was all.

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There is nothing so bad or so good that you will not find Englishmen doing it; but you will never find an Englishman in the wrong. He does everything on principle. He fights you on patriotic principles; he robs you on business principles; he enslaves you on imperial principles; he bullies you on manly principles; he supports his king on loyal principles and cuts off his king's head on republican principles.

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The natural term of the affection of the human animal for its offspring is six years.

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Those who understand evil pardon it.

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The quality of a play is the quality of its ideas.

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Popular Christianity has for its emblem a gibbet, for its chief sensation a sanginary execution after torture, for its central mystery is an insane vengeance bought off by a trumpery expiation. But there is a nobler and profounder Christianity which affirms the sacred mystery of equality and forbids the glaring futility and folly of vengeance.

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O Lord! I don't know which is the worst of the country, the walking or the sitting at home with nothing to do.

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The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.

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My opportunities were still there, nay, they multiplied tenfold; but the strength and youth to cope with them began to fail, and to need eking out with the shifty cunning of experience.

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