George Bernard Shaw Quotes, Death Quotes, Peace Quotes

Murder and capital punishment are not opposites that cancel one another, but similars that breed their kind. It is the deed that teaches not the name we give it.

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People must not be forced to adopt me as their favourite author, even for their own good.

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We are compelled by the theory of God's already achieved perfection to make Him a devil as well as a god, because of the existenceof evil. The god of love, if omnipotent and omniscient, must be the god of cancer and epilepsy as well.... Whoever admits that anything living is evil must either believe that God is malignantly capable of creating evil, or else believe that God has made many mistakes in His attempts to make a perfect being.

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Here there is no hope, and consequently no duty, no work, nothing to be gained by praying, nothing to be lost by doing what you like. Hell, in short, is a place where you have nothing to do but amuse yourself.

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The most sublime courage I have ever witnessed has been among that class too poor to know they possessed it, and too humble for the world to discover it.

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When a bishop at the first shot abandons the worship of Christ and rallies his flock round the altar of Mars, he may be acting patriotically... but that does not justify him in pretending...that Christ is, in effect, Mars.

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The man who has never made a mistake will never make anything else.

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Life levels all men. Death reveals the eminent.

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I was a cannibal for twenty-five years. For the rest I have been a vegetarian.

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Unless the people can choose their leaders and rulers, and can revoke their choice at intervals long enough to test their measuresby results, the government will be a tyranny exercised in the interests of whatever classes or castes or mobs or cliques have this choice.

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It seems as though every time you learn something new you have to give up something.

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The Englishmen is at his best on the links and at his worst in the Cabinet.

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I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people.

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Life is a first draft... with NO rewrite.

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When people shake their heads because we are living in a restless age, ask them how they would like to life in a stationary one, and do without change

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All progress means war with society.

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A nap, my friend, is a brief period of sleep which overtakes superannuated persons when they endeavor to entertain unwelcome visitors or to listen to scientific lectures.

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Heaven, as conventionally conceived, is a place so inane, so dull, so useless, so miserable that nobody has ever ventured to describe a whole day in heaven, though plenty of people have described a day at the seaside.

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A third variety of drama ... begins as tragedy with scraps of fun in it ... and ends in comedy without mirth in it, the place of mirth being taken by a more or less bitter and critical irony.

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Never forget that if you leave your law to judges and your religion to bishops, you will presently find yourself without either law or religion.

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