George Bernard Shaw Quotes, Intelligent Quotes

I like to quote myself frequently and often, it makes me sound much more intelligent than I actually am.

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It is easy - terribly easy - to shake a man's faith in himself. To take advantage of that to break a man's spirit is devil's work.

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I like a state of continual becoming, with a goal in front and not behind.

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I can't control what life did to me, but I can control how I react. Therein lies the difference.

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Reason enslaves all whose minds are not strong enough to master her.

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Capitalism justified itself and was adopted as an economic principle on the express ground that it provides selfish motives for doing good, and that human beings will do nothing except for selfish motives

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All my life affection has been showered upon me, and every forward step I have made has been taken in spite of it.

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It is a woman's business to get married as soon as possible, and a man's to keep unmarried as long as he can.

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It is in the hour of trial that a man finds his true profession.

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The art of government is the organization of idolatry. The bureaucracy consists of functionaries; the aristocracy, of idols; the democracy, of idolaters. The populace cannot understand the bureaucracy: it can only worship the national idols.

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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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Never believe anything a writer tells you about himself. A man comes to believe in the end the lies he tells himself about himself.

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It is not enough to know what is good: you must be able to do it.

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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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I am giving you examples of the fact that this creature man, who in his own selfish affairs is a coward to the backbone, will fight for an idea like a hero. . . . I tell you, gentlemen, if you can shew a man a piece of what he now calls God's work to do, and what he will later call by many new names, you can make him entirely reckless of the consequences to himself personally.

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It is quite useless to declare that all men are born free if you deny that they are born good . Guarantee a man's goodness and his liberty will take care of itself. To guarantee his freedom on condition that you approve of his moral character is formally to abolish all freedom whatsoever, as every man's liberty is at the mercy of a moral indictment which any fool can trump up against everyone who violates custom, whether as a prophet or as a rascal.

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He who confuses political liberty with freedom and political equality with similarity has never thought for five minutes about either.

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Security, the chief pretense of civilization, cannot exist where the worst of dangers, the danger of poverty, hangs over everyone's head.

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The only power a god can teach is the power of doing without happiness.

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There is in man a specific lust for cruelty which infects even his passion of pity and makes it savage.

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