George Bernard Shaw Quotes, Knowledge Quotes, Fundamentals Quotes

The right to know is like the right to live. It is fundamental and unconditional in its assumption that knowledge, like life, is a desirable thing.

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Vegetarians claim to be immune from most diseases but they have been known to die from time to time.

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A part of eugenic politics would finally land us in an extensive use of the lethal chamber. A great many people would have to be put out of existence simply because it wastes other people's time to look after them.

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We must reform society before we can reform ourselves.

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Never fret for an only son, the idea of failure will never occur to him.

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The American white relegates the black to the rank of shoeshine boy; and he concludes from this that the black is good for nothing but shining shoes.

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What is self-control? It is nothing but a highly developed vital sense, dominating and regulating the mere appetites. To overlook the very existence of this supreme sense; to miss the obvious inference that it is the quality that distinguishes the fittest to survive.

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If a woman rebels against high-heeled shoes, she should take care to do it in a very smart hat

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If you do not write for publication, there is little point in writing at all.

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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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There are no secrets better kept than the secrets everybody guesses.

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I like a state of continual becoming, with a goal in front and not behind.

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The happiness of credulity is a cheap and dangerous quality.

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Never believe anything a writer tells you about himself. A man comes to believe in the end the lies he tells himself about himself.

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There is only one belief that can rob death of its sting and the grave of its victory. For without that you cannot be born again.

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The most intolerable pain is produced by prolonging the keenest pleasure.

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Which painting in the National Gallery would I save if there was a fire? The one nearest the door of course.

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The savage bows down to idols of wood and stone, the civilized man to idols of flesh and blood

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When you prevent me from doing anything I want to do, that is persecution; when I prevent you from doing anything you want to do, that is law, order, and morals.

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Is the devil to have all the passions as well as all the good tunes?

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