George Bernard Shaw Quotes, Evil Quotes

Those who understand evil pardon it.

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A cigarette is a pinch of tobacco rolled in paper with fire at one end and a fool at the other.

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A sensitive boy's humiliations may be very good fun for ordinary thick-skinned grown-ups; but to the boy himself theyareso acute, so ignominious, that he cannot confess themcannot but deny them passionately.

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There are two things necessary to Salvation.... Money and gunpowder.

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Happy is the man who can make a living by his hobby

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In the right key one can say anything. In the wrong key, nothing: the only delicate part is the establishment of the key.

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We mustn't be stiff and stand-off, you know. We must be thoroughly democratic, and patronize everybody without distinction of class.

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The most revolutionary invention of the Nineteenth Century was the artificial sterilization of marriage.

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The function of comedy is to dispelunconsciousness by turning the searchlight of the keenest moral and intellectual analysisright on to it.

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The heart of an Irishman is nothing but his imagination

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All industries are brought under the control of such people [film producers] by Capitalism. If the capitalists let themselves be seduced from their pursuit of profits to the enchantments of art, they would be bankrupt before they knew where they were. You cannot combine the pursuit of money with the pursuit of art.

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The plain working truth is that it is not only good for people to be shocked occasionally, but absolutely necessary to the progress of society that they should be shocked pretty often.

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You are all alike, you respectable people. You can't tell me the bursting strain of a ten-inch gun, which is a very simple matter;but you all think you can tell me the bursting strain of a man under temptation. You daren't handle high explosives; but you're all ready to handle honesty and truth and justice and the whole duty of man, and kill one another at that game. What a country! What a world!

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Reminiscences make one feel so deliciously aged and sad.

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If you cannot have what you believe in you must believe in what you have.

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Schools must not become the agencies through which propaganda advocated by any section of society is spread. The method of control always a crucial problem should be in harmony with the fundamental values and principles of the states and the entire e

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Science becomes dangerous only when it imagines that it has reached its goal.

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No sooner had Jesus knocked over the dragon of superstition than Paul boldly set it on its legs again in the name of Jesus.

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A man learns to skate by staggering about and making a fool of himself. Indeed he progresses in all things by resolutely making a fool of himself.

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A serious illness or a death advertises the doctor exactly as a hanging advertises the barrister who defended the person hanged.

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