George Bernard Shaw Quotes, Progress Quotes, Steps Quotes

Social progress takes effect through the replacement of all institutions by new ones; and since every institution involves the recognition of the duty of conforming to it, progress must involve the repudiation of an established duty at every step.

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The philosopher is Nature's pilot.

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Those who won't hesitate to vivisect, won't hesitate to lie about it as well.

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Decency is indecency's conspiracy of silence

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Why, except as a means of livelihood, a man should desire to act on the stage when he has the whole world to act in, is not clear to me.

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I can think of no other edifice constructed by man as altruistic as a lighthouse. They were built only to serve.

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The nation's morals are like its teeth: the more decayed they are the more it hurts to touch them.

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The way to deal with worldly people is to frighten them by repeating their scandalous whisperings aloud.

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We know now that the soul is the body, and the body the soul. They tell us they are different because they want to persuade us that we can keep our souls if we let them make slaves of our bodies.

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I was convinced that Ceylon is the cradle of the human race because everybody there looks an original. All other nations are obviously mass produced.

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Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family. But here again, because there is nothing to sell, there is a very general disposition to regard a married woman's work as no work at all, and to take it as a matter of course that she should not be paid for it.

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Let not the right side of your brain know what the left side doeth.

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When a prisoner sees the door of his dungeon open, he dashes for it without stopping to think where he shall get his dinner outside.

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That is the whole secret of successful fighting. Get your enemy at a disadvantage; and never, on any account, fight him on equal terms.

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Although I cannot lay an egg, I am a very good judge of omelettes

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No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense an idiot.

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Assasination on the scaffold is the worst form of assasination, because there it is invested with the approval of society.

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Never believe anything a writer tells you about himself. A man comes to believe in the end the lies he tells himself about himself.

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God help England if she had no Scots to think for her.

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Criminals do not die by the hands of the law. They die by the hands of other men.

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