George Bernard Shaw Quotes, Fear Quotes, Patriotic Quotes

Patriotism is a pernicious, psychopathic form of idiocy.

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If you strike a child, take care that you strike it in anger, even at the risk of maiming it for life. A blow in cold blood neither can nor should be forgiven.

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No severity of punishment deters when detection is uncertain, as it always must be.

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Use your health, even to the point of wearing it out. That is what it is for. Spend all you have before you die; do not outlive yourself.

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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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No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense an idiot.

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If more than ten percent of the public likes a painting, it should be burned.

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In a hospital they throw you out into the street before you are half cured, but in a nursing home they don't let you out till you are dead.

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When a thing is funny, search it carefully for a hidden truth.

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Newspaper : A device unable to distinguish between a bicycle accident and the collapse of civilisation.

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Plato long ago pointed out the importance of being governed by men with sufficient sense of responsibility and comprehension of public duties to be very reluctant to undertake the work of governing.

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God help England if she had no Scots to think for her.

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There is nothing on earth intended for innocent people so horrible as a school.

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The more ignorant men are, the more convinced are they that their little parish and their little chapel is an apex to which civilization and philosophy has painfully struggled up the pyramid of time from a desert of savagery.

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It is necessary for the welfare of society that genius should be privileged to utter sedition, to blaspheme, to outrage good taste, to corrupt the youthful mind, and generally to scandalize one's uncles.

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God is on the side of the big battalions.

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Money is indeed the most important thing in the world; and all sound and successful personal and national morality should have this fact for its basis.

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We are the masters at the moment, and not only at the moment, but for a very long time to come.

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Have you ever met a man of good character where women are concerned?

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

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