George Bernard Shaw Quotes, Real Quotes, Mind Quotes

The danger of crippling thought, the danger of obstructing the formation of the public mind by specially suppressing ... representations is far greater than any real danger that there is from such representations.

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Get married, but never to a man who is home all day.

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I have defined the hundred per cent American as ninety-nine per cent an idiot.

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The English have no respect for their language, and will not teach their children to speak it.

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I have prophesied about the faith of Muhammad that it would be acceptable to the Europe of tomorrow as it is beginning to be acceptable to the Europe of today. ... I believe that if a man like him were to assume the dictatorship of the modern world he would succeed in solving its problems in a way that would bring it the much-needed peace and happiness.

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Once the divinity we worshipped made itself visible and comprehensible, we crucified it.

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Women upset everything. When you let them into your life, you find that the woman is driving at one thing and you're driving at another.

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Marriage is the most licentious of human institutions.

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We are members one of another; so that you cannot injure or help your neighbor without injuring or helping yourself.

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Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.

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Never waste jealousy on a real man: it is the imaginary man that supplants us all in the long run.

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If the lesser mind could measure the greater as a foot-rule can measure a pyramid, there would be finality in universal suffrage. As it is, the political problem remains unsolved.

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

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Consistency is the enemy of enterprise, just as symmetry is the enemy of art.

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The doctor learns that if he gets ahead of the superstitions of his patients he is a ruined man; and the result is that he instinctively takes care not to get ahead of them.

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This is the true joy in life: Being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one, being a force of nature instead of a feverish, selfish little clod of ailments and grievances, complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy. I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community and as long as I live, it is my privilege to do for it what I can. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got hold of for the moment and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.

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A pessimist is a man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it.

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Nietzche . . . he was a confirmed Life Force worshipper. It was he who raked up the Superman, who is as old as Prometheus; and the 20th century will run after this newest of the old crazes when it gets tired of the world, the flesh, and your humble servant.

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You can always tell an old soldier by the inside of his holsters and cartridge boxes. The young ones carry pistols and cartridges; the old ones, grub.

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It is not the number of years we have behind us, but the number we have before us, that makes us careful and responsible and determined to find out the truth about everything.

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