George Bernard Shaw Quotes, Country Quotes, Art Quotes

The art of manipulating public opinion, which is a necessary art for the democratic politician, and, like other arts, is sometimespractised with greater virtuosity by knaves than by honest men (who are apt to disdain it), has a different technique in different countries. For instance, in England we excel in whitewashing: in America they excel in tarring and feathering. We strain our nerves and stretch our consciences to avoid a scandal: Americans do the same to make one.

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You can rave about Stravinsky without the slightest risk of being classified as a lunatic by the next generation .

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I never expect a soldier to think.

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The way to deal with worldly people is to frighten them by repeating their scandalous whisperings aloud.

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Great art is never produced for its own sake. It is too difficult to be worth the effort.

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Everyone can see that the people who hunt are the right people and the people who don't are the wrong ones.

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The worst sin... is... to be indifferent.

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I was told that my diet was so poor that I could not repair the bones that were broken and operated on. So I have just had an Xradiograph taken; and lo! perfectly mended solid bone so beautifully white that I have left instructions that, if I die, a glove stretcher is to be made of me and sent to you as a souvenir

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All censorships exist to prevent anyone from challenging current conceptions and existing institutions.

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Nobody supposes that doctors are less virtuous than judges; but a judge whose salary and reputation depended on whether the verdict was for plaintiff or defendant, prosecutor or prisoner, would be as little trusted as a general in the pay of the enemy.

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Must then a Christ perish in torment in every age to save those that have no imagination.

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The whole world is strewn with snares, traps, gins and pitfalls for the capture of men by women.

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No king on earth is as safe in his job as a Trade Union official. There is only one thing that can get him sacked; and that is drink. Not even that, as long as he doesn't actually fall down.

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When it comes to the point, really bad men are just as rare as really good ones.

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Schools and schoolmasters, as we have them today, are not popular as places of education and teachers, but rather prisons and turnkeys in which children are kept to prevent them disturbing and chaperoning their parent.

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A fashion is nothing but an induced epidemic.

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No doubt it is easy to demostrate that property will destroy society unless society destroys it.

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A learned man is an idler who kills time by study.

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The only way for a woman to provide for herself decently is for her to be good to some man that can afford to be good to her.

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My main reason for adopting literature as a profession was that, as the author is never seen by his clients, he need not dress respectably.

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