George Bernard Shaw Quotes, Respect Quotes, Money Quotes

You have to choose between trusting to the natural stability of gold and the natural stability of the honesty and intelligence of the members of the government. And, with due respect to these gentlemen, I advise you, as long as the capitalist system lasts, to vote for gold.

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It's so hard to know what to do when one wishes earnestly to do right.

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A man's interest in the world is only the overflow from his interest in himself. When you are a child your vessel is not yet full;so you care for nothing but your own affairs. When you grow up, your vessel overflows; and you are a politician, a philosopher, or an explorer and adventurer. In old age the vessel dries up: there is no overflow: you are a child again.

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Democracy means the organization of society for the benefit and at the expense of everybody indiscriminately and not for the benefit of a privileged class.

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Principles without programs are platitudes.

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Every doctor will allow a colleague to decimate a whole countryside sooner than violate the bond of professional etiquette by giving him away.

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At present there is not a single credible established religion in the world.

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Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart's desire; the other is to get it.

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My only policy is to profess evil and do good.

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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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I've posed nude for a photographer in the manner of Rodin's Thinker, but I merely looked constipated.

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The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else.

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My religion? Well, my dear, I am a Millionaire. That is my religion.

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The art of government is the organisation of idolatry.

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My father must have had some elementary education for he could read and write and keep accounts inaccurately

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Fashions, after all, are only induced epidemics.

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Nobody could stand an eternity of Heaven.

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Well, sir, you never can tell. That's a principle in life with me, sir, if you'll excuse my having such a thing.

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Life at its noblest leaves mere happiness far behind; and indeed cannot endure it. Happiness is not the object of life: life has no object: it is an end in itself; and courage consists in the readiness to sacrifice happiness for an intenser quality of life.

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The ordinary man is an anarchist. He wants to do as he likes. He may want his neighbour to be governed, but he himself doesn't want to be governed. He is mortally afraid of government officials and policemen.

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