George Bernard Shaw Quotes, Running Quotes, Ignorance Quotes

The thief who is in prison is not necessarily more dishonest than his fellows at large, but mostly one who, through ignorance or stupidity [or racism or poverty! - Draffan] steals in a way that is not customary. He snatches a loaf from the baker's counter and is promptly run into gaol. Another man snatches bread from the table of hundreds of widows and orphans and similar credulous souls who do not know the ways of company promoters; and, as likely as not, he is run into Parliament.

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You do not settle whether an argument is justified by merely showing that it is of some use. The distinction is not between useful and useless experiments but between barbarous and civilized behaviour. Vivisection is a social evil because if it advances human knowledge, it does so at the expense of human character.

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Sister, you're trying to keep me alive as an old curiosity, but I'm done, I'm finished, I'm going to die.

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You can lose a man like that by your own death, but not by his.

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Money is the counter that enables life to be lived socially; it is life as truly as sovereigns and banknotes are money.

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The greatest thing in life is to die young - but delay it as long as possible.

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I tell you that as long as I can conceive something better than myself I cannot be easy unless I am striving to bring it into existence or clearing the way for it.

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I prefer the man who calls his nonsense a mystery to him who who pretends it is a weighed, measured, analyzed fact.

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Only in the problem play is there any real drama, because drama is no mere setting up of the camera to nature: it is the presentation in parable of the conflict between Man's will and his environment: in a word, of problem.

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Reminiscences make one feel so deliciously aged and sad.

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I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it.

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He who desires a lifetime of happiness with a beautiful woman desires to enjoy the taste of wine by keeping his mouth always full of it.

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The whole world is strewn with snares, traps, gins and pitfalls for the capture of men by women.

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What is really important in Man is the part of him that we do not understand. Of much of it we are not even conscious, just as we are not normally conscious of keeping up our circulation by our heart-pump, though if we neglect it we die.

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The righteous man takes his life in his hand whenever he utters the truth.

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It would positively be a relief to me to dig Shakespeare up and throw stones at him.

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The moment we want to believe something, we suddenly see all the arguments for it, and become blind to the arguments against it.

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Until the men of action clear out the talkers we who have social consciences are at the mercy of those who have none.

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The technical history of modern harmony is a history of growth of toleration by the human ear of chords that at first sounded discordant and senseless to the main body of contemporary professional musicians.

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Whenever I see the word Operation, especially Trifling Operation, I at once write off the patient as dead.

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