George Bernard Shaw Quotes

Patriotism is a word which always commemorates a robbery.

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An election is a moral horror, as bad as a battle except for the blood; a mud bath for every soul concerned in it.

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If the lesser mind could measure the greater as a foot-rule can measure a pyramid, there would be finality in universal suffrage. As it is, the political problem remains unsolved.

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I find that the moment I let a woman make friends with me, she becomes jealous, exacting, suspicious, and a damned nuisance. I find that the moment I let myself make friends with a woman, I become selfish and tyrannical.

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In an ugly and unhappy world the richest man can purchase nothing but ugliness and unhappiness.

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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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When I speak of The Case for Equality I mean human equality; and that, of course, can only mean one thing: it means equality of income.

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My method is to take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say, and then to say it with the utmost levity.

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Find enough clever things to say, and you're a Prime Minister; write them down and you're a Shakespeare.

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The moment we face it frankly we are driven to the conclusion that the community has a right to put a price on the right to live in it

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There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it.

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Remember that the progress of the world depends on your knowing better than your elders.

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Everyone can see that the people who hunt are the right people and the people who don't are the wrong ones.

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When you read a biography remember that the truth is never fit for publication.

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Hell is not all paved with bad intentions.

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Both optimists and pessimists contribute to society. The optimist invents the aeroplane, the pessimist the parachute.

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Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family. But here again, because there is nothing to sell, there is a very general disposition to regard a married woman's work as no work at all, and to take it as a matter of course that she should not be paid for it.

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To be in hell is to drift; to be in heaven is to steer.

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The churches must learn humility as well as teach it.

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Every fool believes what his teachers tell him, and calls his credulity science or morality as confidently as his father called it divine revelation.

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