George Bernard Shaw Quotes, World Quotes

Syllables govern the world.

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The only time my education was interrupted was when I was in school.

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What is life but a series of inspired follies.

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Poverty blights whole cities; spreads horrible pestilences; strikes dead the very souls of all who come within sight, sound, or smell of it

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Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire.

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If you strike a child, take care that you strike it in anger, even at the risk of maiming it for life. A blow in cold blood neither can nor should be forgiven.

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Fine art is the only teacher except torture.

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The schoolmaster is the person who takes the children off the parents' hands for a consideration. That is to say, he establishes a child prison, engages a number of employee schoolmasters as turnkeys, and covers up the essential cruelty and unnaturalness of the situation by torturing the children if they do not learn, and calling this process, which is within the capacity of any fool or blackguard, by the sacred name of Teaching.

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Reviewing has one advantage over suicide: in suicide you take it out on yourself; in reviewing you take it out on other people.

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The most revolutionary invention of the Nineteenth Century was the artificial sterilization of marriage.

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Even a vortex is a vortex in something. You can't have a whirlpool without water; and you can't have a vortex without gas, or molecules or atoms or ions or electrons or something, not nothing.

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Marriage is good enough for the lower classes: they have facilities for desertion that are denied to us.

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Emotional excitement reaches men through tea, tobacco, opium, whisky, and religion.

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Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn.

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The greatest evils and the worst of crimes is poverty; our first duty, a duty to which every other consideration should be sacrificed, is not to be poor.

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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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We want a few mad people now. See where the sane ones have landed us!

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A cigarette is a pinch of tobacco rolled in paper with fire at one end and a fool at the other.

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The art of manipulating public opinion, which is a necessary art for the democratic politician, and, like other arts, is sometimespractised with greater virtuosity by knaves than by honest men (who are apt to disdain it), has a different technique in different countries. For instance, in England we excel in whitewashing: in America they excel in tarring and feathering. We strain our nerves and stretch our consciences to avoid a scandal: Americans do the same to make one.

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We veneer civilization by doing unkind things in a kind way.

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