George Bernard Shaw Quotes, Children Quotes, Intelligent Quotes

At present, intelligent people do not have their children vaccinated, nor does the law now compel them to. The result is not, as the Jennerians prophesied, the extermination of the human race by smallpox; on the contrary more people are now killed by vaccination than by smallpox.

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Socialism is the same as Communism, only better English.

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The only sensible person is my tailor. He measures me anew each time he sees me.

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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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All progress is due to the unreasonable person.

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The only way in which a nation can make itself wealthy and prosperous is by good housekeeping: that is, by providing for its wants in the order of their importance, and allowing no money to be wasted on whims and luxuries until necessities have been thoroughly served.

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Every man to whom salvation is offered has an inalienable natural right to say 'No, thank you: I prefer to retain my full moral responsibility: it is not good for me to be able to load a scapegoat with my sins: I should be less careful how I committed them if I knew they would cost me nothing.

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Man is the only animal of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid...There is no harm in a well-fed lion. It has no ideals, no sect, no party.

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Life is a constant becoming: all stages lead to the beginning of others.

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The only time my education was interrupted was when I was in school.

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Women have been a ghastly nuisance in my life.

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When two people are under the influence of the most violent, most insane, most delusive, and most transient of passions, they are required to swear that they will remain in that excited, abnormal, and exhausting condition continuously until death do them part.

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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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Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family.

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There is nothing in religion but fiction.

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The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.

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If the English can survive their food, they can survive anything.

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Popular Christianity has for its emblem a gibbet, for its chief sensation a sanginary execution after torture, for its central mystery is an insane vengeance bought off by a trumpery expiation. But there is a nobler and profounder Christianity which affirms the sacred mystery of equality and forbids the glaring futility and folly of vengeance.

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Pasteboard pies and paper flowers are being banished from the stage by the growth of that power of accurate observation which is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it...

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The person I miss most is the one I could have been.

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