George Bernard Shaw Quotes, Christian Quotes

I am a Christian. That obliges me to be a Communist.

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I don't like the idea of killing my fellow creatures in order to eat their dead bodies.

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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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If the lesser mind could measure the greater as a foot-rule can measure a pyramid, there would be finality in universal suffrage. As it is, the political problem remains unsolved.

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Imprisonment, as it exists today, is a worse crime than any of those committed by its victims.

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People get tired of everything, and of nothing sooner than of what they most like.

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Nobody supposes that doctors are less virtuous than judges; but a judge whose salary and reputation depended on whether the verdict was for plaintiff or defendant, prosecutor or prisoner, would be as little trusted as a general in the pay of the enemy.

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We don't bother much about dress and manners in England, because as a nation we don't dress well and we've no manners.

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The Englishmen is at his best on the links and at his worst in the Cabinet.

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Jesus remains unshaken as the practical man; and we stand exposed as the fools, the blunderers, the unpractical visionaries.

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A genius is a person who is seeing further and probing deeper than other people has a different set of ethical valuations from their and has energy enough to give effect to this extra vision and its valuations in whatever manner best suits his or her

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Dancing is a very crude attempt to get into the rhythm of life.

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I finished my first book seventy-six years ago. I offered it to every publisher on the English-speaking earth I had ever heard of. Their refusals were unanimous: and it did not get into print until, fifty years later; publishers would publish anything that had my name on it.

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I like a bit of mongrel myself, whether it's a man or a dog.

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

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Never forget that if you leave your law to judges and your religion to bishops, you will presently find yourself without either law or religion.

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The function of the actor is to make the audience imagine for the moment that real things are happening to real people.

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No community has ever yet passed beyond the initial phases in which its pugnacity and fanaticism enabled it to found a nation, and its cupidity to establish and develop a commercial civilization.

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From Mozart I learnt to say important things in a conversational way.

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I have prophesied about the faith of Muhammad that it would be acceptable to the Europe of tomorrow as it is beginning to be acceptable to the Europe of today. ... I believe that if a man like him were to assume the dictatorship of the modern world he would succeed in solving its problems in a way that would bring it the much-needed peace and happiness.

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