George Bernard Shaw Quotes, Responsibility Quotes, Boss Quotes

In your dread of dictators you established a state of society in which every ward boss is a dictator, every private employer a dictator, every financier a dictator, all with the livelihood of the workers at his mercy, and no public responsibility.

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If you say that God is good, great, blessed, wise or any such thing, the starting point is this : God is.

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The plain working truth is that it is not only good for people to be shocked occasionally, but absolutely necessary to the progress of society that they should be shocked pretty often.

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What is virtue but the Trade Unionism of the married?

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What is really important in Man is the part of him that we do not understand. Of much of it we are not even conscious, just as we are not normally conscious of keeping up our circulation by our heart-pump, though if we neglect it we die.

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Unbounded hopes were placed on each successive extension of the electoral franchise, culminating in the enfranchisement of women.These hopes have been disappointed, because the voters, male and female, being politically untrained and uneducated, have (a) no grasp of constructive measures; (b) loathe taxation as such; (c) dislike being governed at all; and (d) dread and resent any extension of official interference as an encroachment on their personal liberty.

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Revolutionary moments attract those who are not good enough for established institutions as well as those who are too good for them.

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Assassination is the extreme form of censorship; and it seems hard to justify an incitement to it on anti-censorial principles.

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Rich men without convictions are more dangerous in modern society than poor women without chastity.

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The domestic career is no more natural to all women than the military career is natural to all men.

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Those who understand evil pardon it.

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I never expect a soldier to think.

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It is a noteworthy fact that kicking and beating have played so considerable a part in the habits which necessity has imposed on mankind in past ages that the only way of preventing civilized men from beating and kicking their wives is to organize games in which they can kick and beat balls.

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I can't turn your soul on. Leave me those feelings; and you can take away the voice and the face. They are not you.

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My way of joking is to tell the truth

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We sing in a church, why can we not dance there?

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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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Schools and schoolmasters, as we have them today, are not popular as places of education and teachers, but rather prisons and turnkeys in which children are kept to prevent them disturbing and chaperoning their parent.

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The British soldier can stand up to anything except the British War Office.

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A little learning is a dangerous thing, but we must take that risk because a little is as much as our biggest heads can hold.

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