George Bernard Shaw Quotes, School Quotes, Ignorance Quotes

It is the inefficiency and sham of ... our schools ... that save us from being dashed on the rocks of false doctrine instead of drifting down the midstream of mere ignorance.

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In your dread of dictators you established a state of society in which every ward boss is a dictator, every private employer a dictator, every financier a dictator, all with the livelihood of the workers at his mercy, and no public responsibility.

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Even to this day it is easier than it ought to be for me to get a rise out of an American by telling him something about himself which is equally true about every human being on the face of the globe. He at once resents this as a disparagement and an assertion on my part that people in other parts of the globe are not like that, and are loftily superior to such weaknesses.

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All young women begin by believing they can change and reform the men they marry. They can't.

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When the world goes mad, one must accept madness as sanity; since sanity is, in the last analysis, nothing but the madness on which the whole world happens to agree.

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Stop being Jews and start being human beings.

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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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Kings are not born: they are made by artificial hallucination.

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We all go about longing for love: it is the first need of our natures, the loudest cry of our hearts.

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A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.

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Plato long ago pointed out the importance of being governed by men with sufficient sense of responsibility and comprehension of public duties to be very reluctant to undertake the work of governing.

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[Man] progresses in all things by making a fool of himself.

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A soldier is an anachronism of which we must get rid.

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The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that's the essence of inhumanity.

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There are two things necessary to Salvation.... Money and gunpowder.

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The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and about all time.

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Money is indeed the most important thing in the world; and all sound and successful personal and national morality should have this fact for its basis.

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The problem with the press is that they can't tell the difference between a bicycle crash and the end of civilization.

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Geniuses are horrid, intolerant, easily offended, sleeplessly self-conscious men, who expect their wives to be angels with no further business in life than to pet and worship their husbands. Even at the best they are not comfortable men to live with; and a perfect husband is one who is perfectly comfortable to live with.

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I object to publishers: the one service they have done me is to teach me to do without them. They combine commercial rascality with artistic touchiness and pettishness, without being either good business men or fine judges of literature.

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