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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Principles without programs are platitudes.

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A day's work is a day's work, neither more nor less, and the man or woman who does it needs a day's sustenance, a night's repose and due leisure, whether they be painter or ploughman.

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The most sublime courage I have ever witnessed has been among that class too poor to know they possessed it, and too humble for the world to discover it.

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What a man is depends on his character; but what he does, and what we think of what he does, depends on his circumstances.

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At present, intelligent people do not have their children vaccinated, nor does the law now compel them to. The result is not, as the Jennerians prophesied, the extermination of the human race by smallpox; on the contrary more people are now killed by vaccination than by smallpox.

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The person who is ignorant enough to believe that his nourishment depends on meat is in a horrible dilemma.

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It is nearly 50 years since I was assured by a conclave of doctors that if I did not eat meat I should die of starvation.

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The test of good education is seeing how it behaves in a fight.

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Here there is no hope, and consequently no duty, no work, nothing to be gained by praying, nothing to be lost by doing what you like. Hell, in short, is a place where you have nothing to do but amuse yourself.

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My way of joking is to tell the truth

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If all you are going to do in life are the things that are convenient and comfortable, the great things never get done.

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Hollywood keeps before its child audiences a string of glorified young heroes, everyone of whom is an unhesitating and violent Anarchist. His one answer to everything that annoys him or disparages his country or his parents or his young lady or his personal code of manly conduct is to give the offender a "sock" in the jaw.... My observation leads me to believe that it is not the virtuous people who are good at socking jaws.

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My method is to take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say, and then to say it with the utmost levity.

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Imprisonment is as irrevocable as death.

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The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.

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It is courage, courage, courage, that raises the blood of life to crimson splendor.

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The theory that music has a depraving effect on morals has now been abandoned to the old women of both sexes.

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The cinema is going to form the mind of England. The national conscience, the national ideals and tests of conduct, will be those of the film.

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The notion that the colonel need be a better man than the private is as confused as the notion that the keystone need be stronger than the coping stone.

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