George Bernard Shaw Quotes, Believe Quotes, Men Quotes

A man's own self is the last person to believe in him, and is harder to cheat than the rest of the world.

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We are compelled by the theory of God's already achieved perfection to make Him a devil as well as a god, because of the existenceof evil. The god of love, if omnipotent and omniscient, must be the god of cancer and epilepsy as well.... Whoever admits that anything living is evil must either believe that God is malignantly capable of creating evil, or else believe that God has made many mistakes in His attempts to make a perfect being.

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No use slaving for me and then saying you want to be cared for: who cares for a slave? If you come back, come back for the sake of good fellowship; for you’ll get nothing else.

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Pasteboard pies and paper flowers are being banished from the stage by the growth of that power of accurate observation which is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it...

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When it comes to the point, really bad men are just as rare as really good ones.

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I dislike feeling at home when I am abroad.

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All religions begin with a revolt against morality, and perish when morality conquers them.

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Every man is a revolutionist concerning the thing he understands. For example, every person who has mastered a profession is a skeptic concerning it, and consequently a revolutionist.

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Keep away from books and from men who get their ideas from books, and your own books will always be fresh.

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History, sir, will tell lies as usual.

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A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

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Justice is impartiality. Only strangers are impartial.

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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 reasonable man will adjust to the demands of his environment. The unreasonable man expects his environment to adjust to his own needs. Therefore, all progress depends upon the unreasonable man.

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The buried truth germinates and breaks through to the light.

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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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If Despotism failed only for want of a capable benevolent despot, what chance has Democracy, which requires a whole population of capable voters.

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If you do not say a thing in an irritating way, you may as well not say it at all because people will not trouble themselves about anything that does not trouble them.

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I aint such a mug as to put up my children to all I know myself.

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The statesman cannot govern without stability of belief, true or false.

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