George Bernard Shaw Quotes, Revolution Quotes, Rebellious Quotes

Revolutions have never lightened the burden of tyranny; they have only shifted it to another shoulder.

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I am oppressed with a dread of living forever. That is the only disadvantage of vegetarianism.

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As long as more people will pay admission to a theater to see a naked body than to see a naked brain, the drama will languish.

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For the pre-Darwinian age had come to be regarded as a Dark Age in which men still believed that the book of Genesis was a standard scientific treatise, and that the only additions to it were Galileo'a demonstration of Leonardo da Vinci's simple remark that the earth is a moon of the sun, Sir Humphrey Davy's invention of the safety lamp, the discovery of electricity, the application of steam to industrial purposes, and the penny post.

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There is nothing so bad or so good that you will not find Englishmen doing it; but you will never find an Englishman in the wrong. He does everything on principle. He fights you on patriotic principles; he robs you on business principles; he enslaves you on imperial principles; he bullies you on manly principles; he supports his king on loyal principles and cuts off his king's head on republican principles.

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The best bought-up children are those who have seen thier parents as they are. Hypocrisy is not the first duty of a parent.

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The only way for a woman to provide for herself decently is for her to be good to some man that can afford to be good to her.

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It is monstrous that custom should force us to display our faces ostentatiously, however worn and wrinkled and mean they may be, whilst carefully concealing all our other parts, however shapely and well preserved.

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If the governments devalue the currency in order to betray all creditors, you politely call this procedure 'inflation'.

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Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does.

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I feel nothing but the accursed happiness I have dreaded all my life long: the happiness that comes as life goes, the happiness of yielding and dreaming instead of resisting and doing, the sweetness of the fruit that is going rotten.

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All my life affection has been showered upon me, and every forward step I have made has been taken in spite of it.

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You can always tell an old soldier by the inside of his holsters and cartridge boxes. The young ones carry pistols and cartridges; the old ones, grub.

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When a bishop at the first shot abandons the worship of Christ and rallies his flock round the altar of Mars, he may be acting patriotically... but that does not justify him in pretending...that Christ is, in effect, Mars.

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Get out of my way; for I won't stop for you.

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The business man - the man to whom age brings golf instead of wisdom.

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Happiness and beauty are by-products. Folly is the direct pursuit of happiness and beauty.

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Youth, which is forgiven everything, forgives itself nothing: age, which forgives itself everything, is forgiven nothing.

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My friend, when a man has anything to tell in this world, the difficulty is not to make him tell it, but to prevent him from telling it too often.

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If you would stick to the concrete, and put your discoveries in the form of entertaining anecdotes about your adventures with women, your conversation would be easier to follow.

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