George Bernard Shaw Quotes, War Quotes, Army Quotes

Our way of getting an army able to fight the German army is to declare war on Germany just as if we had such an army, and then trust to the appalling resultant peril and disaster to drive us into wholesale enlistment.

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The medieval doctors of divinity who did not pretend to settle how many angels could dance on the point of a needle cut a very poor figure as far as romantic credulity is concerned beside the modern physicists who have settled to the billionth of a millimetre every movement and position in the dance of the electrons. Not for worlds would I question the precise accuracy of these calculations or the existence of electrons (whatever they may be). The fate of Joan is a warning to me against such heresy.

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I dread success. To have succeeded is to have finished one's business on earth, like the male spider who is killed by the female the moment he has succeeded in his courtship. I like the state of continual becoming, with a goal in front and not behind.

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Revolutionary moments attract those who are not good enough for established institutions as well as those who are too good for them.

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Man's inhumanity to man is only surpassed by his cruelty to animals

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What is virtue but the Trade Unionism of the married?

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Forgive him, for he believes that the customs of his tribe are the laws of nature!

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If you can’t appreciate what you’ve got, you’d better get what you can appreciate.

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Sherlock Holmes was a drug addict without a single amiable trait.

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A Native American elder once described his own inner struggles in this manner: Inside of me there are two dogs. One of the dogs is mean and evil. The other dog is good. The mean dog fights the good dog all the time. When asked which dog wins, he reflected for a moment and replied, The one I feed the most.

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It's not that I'm so clever, it is that others are so stupid.

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I want to be all used up when I die.

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Marriage is good enough for the lower classes: they have facilities for desertion that are denied to us.

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From Mozart I learnt to say important things in a conversational way.

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The ordinary man is an anarchist. He wants to do as he likes. He may want his neighbour to be governed, but he himself doesn't want to be governed. He is mortally afraid of government officials and policemen.

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I believe in the discipline of silence, and could talk for hours about it.

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Live in contact with dreams and you will get something of their charm: live in contact with facts and you will get something of their brutality. I wish I could find a country to live in where the facts were not brutal and the dreams not real.

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All censorships exist to prevent anyone from challenging current conceptions and existing institutions.

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I find that the moment I let a woman make friends with me, she becomes jealous, exacting, suspicious, and a damned nuisance. I find that the moment I let myself make friends with a woman, I become selfish and tyrannical.

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It is in the hour of trial that a man finds his true profession.

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