George Bernard Shaw Quotes, Thinking Quotes, Morality Quotes

An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable.

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NAPOLEON: What shall we do with this soldier, Giuseppe? Everything he says is wrong. GIUSEPPE: Make him a general, Excellency, and then everything he says will be right.

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You accepted Allah or you had your throat cut by someone who did accept him, and who went to Paradise for having sent you to Hell.

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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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A family is a tyranny ruled over by it's weakest member.

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There is no subject on which more dangerous nonsense is talked and thought than marriage.

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The first condition of progress is the removal of censorship.

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What is wrong with the prosaic Englishman is what is wrong with the prosaic men of all countries: stupidity.

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I must ... warn my readers that my attacks are directed against themselves, not against my stage figures.

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I also made it quite clear that Socialism means equality of income or nothing, and that under socialism you would not be allowed to be poor. You would be forcibly feed, clothed, lodged, taught, and employed whether you like it or not. If it were discovered that you had not character enough to be worth all this trouble, you might possibly be executed in a kindly manner; but whilst you were permitted to live you would have to live well.

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Don't order any black things. Rejoice in his memory; and be radiant: leave grief to the children. Wear violet and purple. Be patient with the poor people who will snivel: they don't know; and they think they will live for ever, which makes death a division instead of a bond.

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I hope you have lost your good looks, for while they last any fool can adore you, and the adoration of fools is bad for the soul.

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When the horrors of anarchy force us to set up laws that forbid us to fight and torture one another for sport, we still snatch at every excuse for declaring individuals outside the protection of law and torturing them to our hearts content.

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Sister, you're trying to keep me alive as an old curiosity, but I'm done, I'm finished, I'm going to die.

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Religion is a great force - the only real motive force in the world; but what you fellows don't understand is that you must get at a man through his own religion and not through yours.

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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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Any belief worth having must survive doubt

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The truth is, hardly any of us have ethical energy enough for more than one really inflexible point of honor.

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It is easy - terribly easy - to shake a man's faith in himself. To take advantage of that to break a man's spirit is devil's work.

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You don't learn to hold your own in the world by standing on guard, but by attacking, and getting well hammered yourself.

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