George Bernard Shaw Quotes, Power Quotes, Cynical Quotes

Pasteboard pies and paper flowers are being banished from the stage by the growth of that power of accurate observation which is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it...

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Power is the recognition of necessity.

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Where I found the living, there I found the will to power; even in the will of servants I found the will to be master.

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Yet beauty, though injurious, hath strange power, After offence returning, to regain Love once possess'd.

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A power is passing from the earth.

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The possession of power inevitably spoils the free use of reason.

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Public opinion is the thermometer a monarch should constantly consult.

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Thought is like a bubble rising to the surface. When thought is joined to will, we call it power. That which strikes the sick person whom you are trying to help is not thought, but power.

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International incidents must not be allowed to shape foreign policy, foreign policy must shape the incidents.

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He who knows how to flatter also knows how to slander.

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Where the Government is weak, military sway prevails.

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There is no thought in any mind, but it quickly tends to convert itself into power.

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Great events ever depend but upon a single hair. The adroit man profits by everything, neglects nothing which can increase his chances; the less adroit, by sometimes disregarding a single chance, fails in everything.

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What power is higher than the power of purity?

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The government will make use of these powers only insofar as they are essential for carrying out vitally necessary measures.... The separate existence of the federal states will not be done away.... The number of cases in which an internal necessity exists for having recourse to such law is in itself a limited one.

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The history of liberty is the history of limitations on the power of government, not the increase of it. When we resist, therefore, the concentration of power, we are resisting the processes of death, because concentration of power is what always precedes the destruction of human liberties.

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Eulogy. Praise of a person who has either the advantages of wealth and power, or the consideration to be dead.

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Power obeys reality, and not appearances; power is according to quality, and not quantity.

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Commerce has set the mark of selfishness, the signet of its all-enslaving power, upon a shining ore, and called it gold: before whose image bow the vulgar great, the vainly rich, the miserable proud, the mob of peasants, nobles, priests, and kings, and with blind feelings reverence the power that grinds them to the dust of misery.

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The power of a man increases steadily by continuing in one direction.

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