George Bernard Shaw Quotes, Slave Quotes

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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If women were as fastidious as men, morally or physically, there would be an end of the race.

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In an ugly and unhappy world the richest man can purchase nothing but ugliness and unhappiness.

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In your Salvation shelter I saw poverty, misery, cold and hunger. You gave them bread and treacle and dreams of heaven. I give from thirty shillings a week to twelve thousand a year. They find their own dreams; but I look after the drainage.

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An author who gives a manager or publisher any rights in his work except those immediately and specifically required for its publication or performance is for business purposes an imbecile.

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Only where there is pecuniary equality can the distinction of merit stand out.

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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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No sooner had Jesus knocked over the dragon of superstition than Paul boldly set it on its legs again in the name of Jesus.

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A broken heart is a very pleasant complaint for a man in London if he has a comfortable income.

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The schoolmaster is the person who takes the children off the parents' hands for a consideration. That is to say, he establishes a child prison, engages a number of employee schoolmasters as turnkeys, and covers up the essential cruelty and unnaturalness of the situation by torturing the children if they do not learn, and calling this process, which is within the capacity of any fool or blackguard, by the sacred name of Teaching.

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Martyrdom is the only path to immortality that requires no talent whatsoever.

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A thing that nobody believes cannot be proved too often.

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All progress depends upon the unreasonable person.

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Taking all the round of professions and occupations, you will find that every man is the worse for being poor; and the doctor is a specially dangerous man when poor.

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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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Well, sir, you never can tell. That's a principle in life with me, sir, if you'll excuse my having such a thing.

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You cannot have power for good without having power for evil too. Even mother's milk nourishes murderers as well as heroes.

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Only in books has mankind known perfect truth, love and beauty.

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When we want to read of the deeds that are done for love, whither do we turn? To the murder column.

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Most of my recent plays were written in the railway train between Hatfield and Kings Cross. I write anywhere, on the top of omnibuses or wherever I may be; it is all the same to me.

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