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There is not one single established religion that an intelligent, educated man can believe.

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In a living society every day is a day of judgment; and its recognition as such is not the end of all things but the beginning ofa real civilization.

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If Despotism failed only for want of a capable benevolent despot, what chance has Democracy, which requires a whole population of capable voters.

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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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There are only two classes in good society in England: the equestrian classes and the neurotic classes.

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Live in contact with dreams and you will get something of their charm: live in contact with facts and you will get something of their brutality. I wish I could find a country to live in where the facts were not brutal and the dreams not real.

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He who bears the brand of Cain shall rule the earth.

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Every fool believes what his teachers tell him, and calls his credulity science or morality as confidently as his father called it divine revelation.

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When domestic servants are treated as human beings it is not worth while to keep them.

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Christmas is forced upon a reluctant and disgusted nation by the shopkeepers and the press; on its own merits it would wither and shrivel in the fiery breath of universal hatred.

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Vegetarians claim to be immune from most diseases but they have been known to die from time to time.

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What is virtue but the Trade Unionism of the married?

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No severity of punishment deters when detection is uncertain, as it always must be.

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There was only one virtue, pugnacity; only one vice, pacifism. That is an essential condition of war.

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Make me a beautiful word for doing things tomorrow; for that surely is a great and blessed invention.

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I wish to boast that Pygmalion has been an extremely successful play all over Europe and North America as well as at home. It is so intensely and deliberately didactic, and its subject is esteemed so dry, that I delight in throwing it at the heads of the wiseacres who repeat the parrot cry that art should never be didactic. It goes to prove my contention that art should never be anything else.

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Suppose the world were only one of God's jokes, would you work any the less to make it a good joke instead of a bad one?

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Nationalism must now be added to the refuse pile of superstitions. We are now citizens of the world, and the man who divides the race into elect Irishmen and reprobate foreign devils (especially Englishmen) had better live on the Blaskets where he can admire himself without disturbance.

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It is more dangerous to be a great prophet or poet than to promote twenty companies for swindling simple folk out of their savings.

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You propound a complicated arithmetical problem: say cubing a number containing four digits. Give me a slate and half an hour's time, and I can produce a wrong answer.

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