George Bernard Shaw Quotes, Order Quotes, Law Quotes

Our laws make law impossible; our liberties destroy all freedom; our property is organized robbery; our morality an impudent hypocrisy; our wisdom is administered by inexperienced or mal-experienced dupes; our power wielded by cowards and weaklings; and our honour false in all its points. I am an enemy of the existing order for good reasons

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What we call education and culture is for the most part nothing but the substitution of reading for experience, of literature for life, of the obsolete fictitious for the contemporary real.

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We all go about longing for love: it is the first need of our natures, the loudest cry of our hearts.

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Has fear ever held a man back from anything he really wanted?

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Those who admire modern civilization usually identify it with the steam engine and the electric telegraph.

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Gardening is the only unquestionably useful job.

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The first condition of progress is the removal of censorship.

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Taxes are the chief business of a conqueror of the world.

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All this struggling and striving to make the world better is a great mistake. Not that it's wrong to try to improve the world if you know how but simply because struggling and striving are the worst possible ways to go about doing anything!

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

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People expect too much of one year and too little of ten.

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The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.

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Morality consists of suspecting other people of not being legally married.

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A pornographic novelist is one who exploits the sexual instinct as a prostitute does. A legitimate sex novel elucidates it or brings out its poetry, tragedy, or comedy.

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Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.

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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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Brains are not everything.

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Without danger I cannot be great. That is how I pay for Abel's blood. Danger and fear follow my steps everywhere. Without them courage would have no sense. And it is courage, courage, courage that raises the blood of life to crimson splendor.

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Our political experiment of democracy, the last refuge of cheap misgovernment.

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

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