George Bernard Shaw Quotes, Art Quotes, Government Quotes

The art of government is the organization of idolatry. The bureaucracy consists of functionaries; the aristocracy, of idols; the democracy, of idolaters. The populace cannot understand the bureaucracy: it can only worship the national idols.

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The law is equal before all of us; but we are not all equal before the law. Virtually there is one law for the rich and another for the poor, one law for the cunning and another for the simple, one law for the forceful and another for the feeble, one law for the ignorant and another for the learned, one law for the brave and another for the timid, and within family limits one law for the parent and no law at all for the child.

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I dread success. To have succeeded is to have finished one's business on earth, like the male spider who is killed by the female the moment he has succeeded in his courtship. I like the state of continual becoming, with a goal in front and not behind.

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The more reasonable a student was in mathematics, the more unreasonable she was in the affairs of real life, concerning which fewtrustworthy postulates have yet been ascertained.

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The only secrets are the secrets that keep themselves.

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We should have had socialism already, but for the socialists, am quite willing to drop the name if dropping it will help me to get the thing.

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An actress is not a lady; at least, when she is, she is not an actress.

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[Man] progresses in all things by making a fool of himself.

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Man can climb to the highest summits, but he cannot dwell there long.

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Only in books has mankind known perfect truth, love and beauty.

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A sensitive boy's humiliations may be very good fun for ordinary thick-skinned grown-ups; but to the boy himself theyareso acute, so ignominious, that he cannot confess themcannot but deny them passionately.

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Vitality is a woman is a blind fury of creation.

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A book is like a child: it is easier to bring it into the world than to control it when it is launched there.

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Kings are not born: they are made by artificial hallucination.

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While we have prisons it matters little which of us occupy the cells.

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If only for a half hour a day, a child should do something serviceable to the community

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The danger of crippling thought, the danger of obstructing the formation of the public mind by specially suppressing ... representations is far greater than any real danger that there is from such representations.

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Nietzche . . . he was a confirmed Life Force worshipper. It was he who raked up the Superman, who is as old as Prometheus; and the 20th century will run after this newest of the old crazes when it gets tired of the world, the flesh, and your humble servant.

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No community has ever yet passed beyond the initial phases in which its pugnacity and fanaticism enabled it to found a nation, and its cupidity to establish and develop a commercial civilization.

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Sexually,Woman is Nature's contrivance for perpetuating its highest achievement.

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