George Bernard Shaw Quotes, Civilization Quotes, Done Quotes

We must not stay as we are, doing always what was done last time, or we shall stick in the mud. Yet neither must we undertake a new world as catastrophic Utopians, and wreck our civilization in our hurry to mend it.

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Poverty doesn't bring unhappiness; it brings degradation.

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Patriotism is a pernicious, psychopathic form of idiocy.

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When you loved me I gave you the whole sun and stars to play with. I gave you eternity in a single moment, strength of the mountains in one clasp of your arms, and the volume of all the seas in one impulse of your soul.

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You cannot be a hero without being a coward.

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Thus, I blush to add, you can not be a philosopher and a good man, though you may be a philosopher and a great one.

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There may be some doubt as to who are the best people to have charge of children, but there can be no doubt that parents are the worst.

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For four wicked centuries the world has dreamed this foolish dream of efficiency; and the end is not yet. But the end will come.

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Would the world ever have been made if its maker had been afraid of making trouble?Making life means making trouble. There’s only one way of escaping trouble; and that’s killing things.

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I no longer desire happiness: life is nobler than that.

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Whenever an obviously well founded statement is made in England by a person specially well acquainted with the facts, that unlucky person is instantly and frantically contradicted by all the people who obviously know nothing about it.

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In truth , mankind cannot be saved from without, by schoolmasters or any other sort of masters: it can only be lamed and enslaved by them. It is said that if you wash a cat it will never again wash itself. This may or may not be true : what is certain is that if you teach a man anything he will never learn it; and if you cure him of a disease he will be unable to cure himself the next time it attacks him.

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When people shake their heads because we are living in a restless age, ask them how they would like to life in a stationary one, and do without change

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I must have been an insufferable child; all children are.

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Altogether too many sheep

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The golden rule is that there are no golden rules.

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A married man is a man with a past, while a bachelor is a man with a future.

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My reputation grows with every failure.

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You have nothing to do but mention the quantum theory, and people will take your voice for the voice of science, and belive anything.

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The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.

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