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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Whisky is liquid sunshine.

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Has fear ever held a man back from anything he really wanted?

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The things most people want to know about are usually none of their business.

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It is not pleasure that makes life worth living. It is life that makes pleasure worth having.

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While browsing in a second-hand bookshop one day, George Bernard Shaw was amused to find a copy of one of his own works which he himself had inscribed for a friend: "To ----, with esteem, George Bernard Shaw." He immediately purchased the book and returned it to the friend with a second inscription: "With renewed esteem, George Bernard Shaw.

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When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.

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You have set up in New York Harbor a monstrous idol which you call Liberty. The only thing that remains to complete that monument is to put on its pedestal the inscription written by Dante on the gate of hell: All hope abandon ye who enter here.

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Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.

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The great dramatist has something better to do than to amuse either himself or his audience. He has to interpret life.

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Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force. But even Capitalist cynicism will admit that however unconscionable we may be when our own interests are affected, we can be most indignantly virtuous at the expense of others.

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Optimistic lies have such immense therapeutic value that a doctor who cannot tell them convincingly has mistaken his profession.

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The more a man possesses over and above what he uses, the more careworn he becomes.

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People who are hard, grasping and always ready to take advantage of their neighbors become very rich.

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Discussing vaccination with a doctor is like discussing vegetarianism with a butcher.

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Set me anything to do as a task, and it is inconceivable the desire I have to do something else.

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I can't talk religion to a man with bodily hunger in his eyes.

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It is most unwise for people in love to marry.

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Property, said Proudhon, is theft. This is the only perfect truism that has been uttered on the subject.

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Any man who is not a communist at the age of twenty is a fool. Any man who is still a communist at the age of thirty is an even bigger fool.

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