George Bernard Shaw Quotes, Government Quotes, Class Quotes

Unless the people can choose their leaders and rulers, and can revoke their choice at intervals long enough to test their measuresby results, the government will be a tyranny exercised in the interests of whatever classes or castes or mobs or cliques have this choice.

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There is no subject on which more dangerous nonsense is talked and thought than marriage.

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Consciousness of a fact is not knowing it: if it were, the fish would know more of the sea than the geographers and the naturalists.

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The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.

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I love little children too but I don't cut off their heads and stick them in vases.

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A soldier is an anachronism of which we must get rid.

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Progress is impossible without change; and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.

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A moderately honest man with a moderately faithful wife, moderate drinkers both, in a moderately healthy house: that is the true middle class unit.

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It is most unwise for people in love to marry.

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Give me the artist who breathes it like a native, and goes about his work in it as quietly as a common man goes about his ordinary business. Mozart did so; and that is why I like him. Even if I did not, I should pretend to; for a taste in his music is a mark of caste among musicians, and should be worn, like a tall hat, by the amateur who wishes to pass for a true Brahmin.

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All progress depends upon the unreasonable person.

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Fashions are induced epidemics.

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The only secrets are the secrets that keep themselves.

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Murder and capital punishment are not opposites that cancel one another, but similars that breed their kind. It is the deed that teaches not the name we give it.

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The more reasonable a student was in mathematics, the more unreasonable she was in the affairs of real life, concerning which fewtrustworthy postulates have yet been ascertained.

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Words are only postage stamps delivering the object for you to unwrap

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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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There is only one person an English girl hates more than she hates her elder sister; and that is her mother.

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Man is the only animals of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid.

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The conversion of a savage to Christianity is the conversion of Christianity to savagery.

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