George Bernard Shaw Quotes, Children Quotes, Thinking Quotes

If we have come to think that the nursery and the kitchen are the natural sphere of a woman, we have done so exactly as English children come to think that a cage is the natural sphere of a parrot: because they have never seen one anywhere else.

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All sorts of bodily diseases are produced by half-used minds.

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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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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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My religious convictions and scientific views cannot at present be more specifically defined than as those of a believer in creative revolution. I desire that no public monument or work of art or inscription or sermon or ritual service commemorating me shall suggest that I accepted the tenets peculiar to any established church or denomination nor take the form of a cross or any other instrument of torture or symbol of blood sacrifice.

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I'm not a teacher: only a fellow traveler of whom you asked the way. I pointed ahead - ahead of myself as well as you.

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Optimistic lies have such immense therapeutic value that a doctor who cannot tell them convincingly has mistaken his profession.

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We mustn't be stiff and stand-off, you know. We must be thoroughly democratic, and patronize everybody without distinction of class.

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When an apparent miracle happened.it proved divine mission to the credulous, and proved a contract with the devil to the skeptical.

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To endure the pain of living, we all drug ourselves more or less with gin, with literature, with superstitions, with romance, with idealism, political, sentimental, and moral, with every possible preparation of that universal hashish: imagination.

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Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.

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Taxes are the chief business of a conqueror of the world.

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When the master has come to do everything through the slave, the slave becomes his master, since he cannot live without him.

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Wicked people means people who have no love: therefore, they have no shame. They have the power to ask love because the don't need it: they have the power to offer it because they have none to give.

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Somemenare bornkings; and someare bornstatesmen. The two are seldom the same.

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Capitalism drives the employers to do their worst to the employed, and the employed to do the least for them. And it boasts all the time of the incentive it provides to both to do their best! . . . The reason the Capitalist system has worked so far without jamming for more than a few months at a time, and then only in places, is that it has not yet succeeded in making a conquest of human nature so complete that everybody acts on strictly business principles.

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If the governments devalue the currency in order to betray all creditors, you politely call this procedure 'inflation'.

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Civilization is a disease produced by the practice of building societies with rotten material.

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A veteran journalist has never had time to think twice before he writes.

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The person who is ignorant enough to believe that his nourishment depends on meat is in a horrible dilemma.

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