George Bernard Shaw Quotes, Christian Quotes

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

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I was a cannibal for twenty-five years. For the rest I have been a vegetarian.

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A man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.

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We should find ourselves committed to killing a great many people whom we now leave living, and to leave living a great many people whom we at present kill. We should have to get rid of all ideas about capital punishment.

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If you leave the smallest corner of your head vacant for a moment, other people's opinions will rush in from all quarters.

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Where there is no knowledge ignorance calls itself science.

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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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Give women the vote, and in five years there will be a crushing tax on bachelors.

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When the horrors of anarchy force us to set up laws that forbid us to fight and torture one another for sport, we still snatch at every excuse for declaring individuals outside the protection of law and torturing them to our hearts content.

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The Anti-Vivisector does not deny that physiologists must make experiments and even take chances with new methods. He says that they must not seek knowledge by criminal methods, just as they must not make money by criminal methods. He does not object to Galileo dropping cannon balls from the top of the leaning tower of Pisa; but he would object to shoving off two dogs or American tourists.

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NAPOLEON: What shall we do with this soldier, Giuseppe? Everything he says is wrong. GIUSEPPE: Make him a general, Excellency, and then everything he says will be right.

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When you loved me I gave you the whole sun and stars to play with. I gave you eternity in a single moment, strength of the mountains in one clasp of your arms, and the volume of all the seas in one impulse of your soul.

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When a heretic wishes to avoid martyrdom he speaks of "Orthodoxy, True and False" and demonstrates that the True is his heresy.

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The unconscious self is the real genius. Your breathing goes wrong the moment your conscious self meddles with it.

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What you are to do without me I cannot imagine.

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If associations to control burglary and murder were tolerated we should take it for granted that the members should all be burglers and murderers.

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The only secrets are the secrets that keep themselves.

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It is one of the mysterious ways of Allah to make women troublesome when he makes them beautiful.

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Build a system that even a fool can use, and only a fool will want to use it.

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When we want to read of the deeds that are done for love, whither do we turn? To the murder column.

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