George Bernard Shaw Quotes, Inspirational Quotes, Faith Quotes

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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Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it.

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The vilest abortionist is he who attempts to mould a child's character.

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The love of economy is the root of all virtue.

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I really don't think I could consent to go to Heaven if I thought there were no animals there.

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He never does a proper thing without giving an improper reason for it.

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We must not stay as we are, doing always what was done last time, or we shall stick in the mud. Yet neither must we undertake a new world as catastrophic Utopians, and wreck our civilization in our hurry to mend it.

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When a thing is funny, search it carefully for a hidden truth.

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An index is a great leveller.

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

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There is only one person an English girl hates more than she hates her elder sister; and that is her mother.

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Fine art is the subtlest, the most seductive, the most effective instrument of moral propaganda in the world, excepting only the example of personal conduct; and I waive even this exception in favor of the art of the stage, because it works by exhibiting examples of personal conduct made intelligible and moving to crowds of unobservant unreflecting people to whom real life means nothing.

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Financiers live in a world of illusion. They count on something which they call the capital of the country, which has no existence.

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The test of good education is seeing how it behaves in a fight.

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Democracy means the organization of society for the benefit and at the expense of everybody indiscriminately and not for the benefit of a privileged class.

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Money is the most important thing in the world. It represents health, strength, honor, generosity, and beauty as conspicuously as the want of it represents illness, weakness, disgrace, meanness, and ugliness.

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Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.

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Beware of the man whose God is in the skies.

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I loathe the mess of mean superstitions and misunderstood prophecies which is still rammed down the throats of children under the name of Christianity.

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An election is a moral horror, as bad as a battle except for the blood; a mud bath for every soul concerned in it.

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