George Bernard Shaw Quotes, Selfish Quotes, Work Quotes

I am giving you examples of the fact that this creature man, who in his own selfish affairs is a coward to the backbone, will fight for an idea like a hero. . . . I tell you, gentlemen, if you can shew a man a piece of what he now calls God's work to do, and what he will later call by many new names, you can make him entirely reckless of the consequences to himself personally.

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Nothing is more dangerous than a poor doctor: not even a poor employer or a poor landlord.

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God has given us a world that nothing but our own folly keeps from being a paradise.

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Our ideals, like the gods of old, are constantly demanding human sacrifices.

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A thing that nobody believes cannot be proved too often.

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A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.

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Until the men of action clear out the talkers we who have social consciences are at the mercy of those who have none.

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I like flowers, I also like children, but I do not chop their heads off and keep them in bowls of water around the house.

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Opera is when a tenor and soprano want to make love, but are prevented from doing so by a baritone.

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Our necessities are few, but our wants are endless.

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It is not enough to know what is good: you must be able to do it.

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Let a short Act of Parliament be passed, placing all street musicians outside the protection of the law, so that any citizen may assail them with stones, sticks, knives, pistols or bombs without incurring any penalties.

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The great danger of conversion in all ages has been that when the religion of the high mind is offered to the lower mind, the lower mind, feeling its fascination without understanding it, and being incapable of rising to it, drags it down to its level by degrading it.

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Just as the liar 's punishment is, not in the least that he is not believed , but that he cannot believe any one else; so a guilty society can more easily be persuaded that any apparently innocent act is guilty than that any apparently guilty act is innocent.

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Man is the only animal of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid...There is no harm in a well-fed lion. It has no ideals, no sect, no party.

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Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family.

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Life is a constant becoming: all stages lead to the beginning of others.

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When you prevent me from doing anything I want to do, that is persecution; when I prevent you from doing anything you want to do, that is law, order, and morals.

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The moment we face it frankly we are driven to the conclusion that the community has a right to put a price on the right to live in it

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The truth sticks in our throats with all the sauces it is served with: it will never go down until we take it without any sauce at all.

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