George Bernard Shaw Quotes, Running Quotes, Ignorance Quotes

The thief who is in prison is not necessarily more dishonest than his fellows at large, but mostly one who, through ignorance or stupidity [or racism or poverty! - Draffan] steals in a way that is not customary. He snatches a loaf from the baker's counter and is promptly run into gaol. Another man snatches bread from the table of hundreds of widows and orphans and similar credulous souls who do not know the ways of company promoters; and, as likely as not, he is run into Parliament.

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The golden rule is that there are no golden rules.

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The Jews generally give value. They make you pay; but they deliver the goods. In my experience the men who want something for nothing are invariably Christians.

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I do not waste my time writing pot-boilers: the pot must be boiled, and even my pot au feu has some chunks of fresh meat in it. ...I have no time to boil myself down; and anyhow I could not do so and preserve all the necessary nutriment and the flavoring on which the digestibility depends.

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Life is too short for men to take it seriously.

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Our prejudices are so deeply rooted that we never think of them as prejudices but call them common sense.

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When asked which dog wins, he reflected for a moment and replied, "The one I feed the most."

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It's not that I'm so clever, it is that others are so stupid.

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Martyrdom, sir, is what these people like: it is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.

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Every man deserves to be judged in the context of his times.

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All sorts of bodily diseases are produced by half-used minds.

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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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As an old soldier, I admit the cowardice: it's as universal as seasickness, and matters just as little.

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A married man forms married habits and becomes dependent on marriage just as a sailor becomes dependent on the sea.

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It is not disbelief that is dangerous to our society; it is belief.

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Whenever I see the word Operation, especially Trifling Operation, I at once write off the patient as dead.

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Where equality is undisputed, so also is subordination.

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The most revolutionary invention of the Nineteenth Century was the artificial sterilization of marriage.

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In heaven an angel is nobody in particular.

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What the world calls originality is only an unaccustomed method of tickling it.

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