George Bernard Shaw Quotes, Country Quotes, Art Quotes

The art of manipulating public opinion, which is a necessary art for the democratic politician, and, like other arts, is sometimespractised with greater virtuosity by knaves than by honest men (who are apt to disdain it), has a different technique in different countries. For instance, in England we excel in whitewashing: in America they excel in tarring and feathering. We strain our nerves and stretch our consciences to avoid a scandal: Americans do the same to make one.

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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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War does not decide who is right but who is left.

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Of the two lots, the woman's lot of perpetual motherhood, and the man's of perpetual babyhood, I prefer the man's.

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The politician who once had to learn to flatter Kings has now to learn how to fascinate, amuse, coax, humbug, frighten, or otherwise strike the fancy of the electorate.

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Get married, but never to a man who is home all day.

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Nobel Prize money is a life-belt thrown to a swimmer who has already reached the shore in safety.

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The devil can quote Shakespeare for his own purpose.

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I have never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from other men. There is not much harm in a lion. He has no ideals, no religion, no politics, no chivalry, no gentility; in short, no reason for destroying anything that he does not want to eat

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We must reform society before we can reform ourselves.

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Why should we take advice on sex from the pope? If he knows anything about it, he shouldn't!

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The censorship method ... is that of handing the job over to some frail and erring mortal man, and making him omnipotent on the assumption that his official status will make him infallible and omniscient.

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If you begin by sacrificing yourself to those you love, you will end by hating those to whom you have sacrificed yourself.

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Treat persons who profess to be able to cure disease as you treat fortune tellers.

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Physically there is nothing to distinguish human society from the farm-yard except that children are more troublesome and costly than chickens and calves and that men and women are not so completely enslaved as farm stock.

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The conversion of Paul was no conversion at all; it was Paul who converted the religion that has raised one man above sin and death.

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Communism, being the lay form of Catholicism, and indeed meaning the same thing, has never had any lack of chaplains.

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The philosopher is Nature's pilot. And there you have our difference: to be in hell is to drift: to be in heaven is to steer.

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Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.

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Words are only postage stamps delivering the object for you to unwrap

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