George Bernard Shaw Quotes, Confused Quotes, Hero Quotes

No age or condition is without its heroes . The least incapable general in a nation is its Cæsar, the least imbecile statesman its Solon , the least confused thinker its Socrates , the least commonplace poet its Shakespeare .

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You have nothing to do but mention the quantum theory, and people will take your voice for the voice of science, and belive anything.

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Those who understand the steam engine and the electric telegraph spend their lives in trying to replace them with something better.

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The person I miss most is the one I could have been.

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Let wife and child perish, and lay bricks for your last crust, rather than part with an iota of your [copy]rights.

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Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn.

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We should all be obliged to appear before a board every five years and justify our existence... on pain of liquidation.

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One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't.

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Why should we take advice on sex from the pope? If he knows anything about it, he shouldn't!

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I must ... warn my readers that my attacks are directed against themselves, not against my stage figures.

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To endure the pain of living, we all drug ourselves more or less with gin, with literature, with superstitions, with romance, with idealism, political, sentimental, and moral, with every possible preparation of that universal hashish: imagination.

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What is the matter with the rich is Uselessness.

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This is the true joy in life: Being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one, being a force of nature instead of a feverish, selfish little clod of ailments and grievances, complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy. I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community and as long as I live, it is my privilege to do for it what I can. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got hold of for the moment and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.

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I can't turn your soul on. Leave me those feelings; and you can take away the voice and the face. They are not you.

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He knows nothing and thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.

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All the sweetness of religion is conveyed to the world by the hands of storytellers and image-makers. Without their fictions the truths of religion would for the multitude be neither intelligible nor even apprehensible; and the prophets would prophesy and the teachers teach in vain.

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Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.

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Everybody who does not live in a prostitute's bed and on a diet of cocaine snow is called an ascetic nowadays.

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I choose not to make a graveyard of my body for the rotting corpses of dead animals.

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A critic is one who leaves no turn unstoned.

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