George Bernard Shaw Quotes, Believe Quotes, Demand Quotes

If you demand my authorities for this and that, I must reply that only those who have never hunted up the authorities as I have believe that there is any authority who is not contradicted flatly by some other authority.

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Imagination is the beginning of creation.

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If Despotism failed only for want of a capable benevolent despot, what chance has Democracy, which requires a whole population of capable voters.

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Of the two lots, the woman's lot of perpetual motherhood, and the man's of perpetual babyhood, I prefer the man's.

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Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.

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I don't believe in morality . I'm a disciple of Bernard Shaw.

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What is the matter with universities is that the students are school children, whereas it is of the very essence of university education that they should be adults.

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I was a freethinker before I knew how to think.

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What a man believes may be ascertained, not from his creed, but from the assumptions on which he habitually acts.

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If you leave the smallest corner of your head vacant for a moment, other people's opinions will rush in from all quarters.

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The great advantage of a hotel is that it is a refuge from home life.

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I have defined the hundred per cent American as ninety-nine per cent an idiot.

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Property, said Proudhon, is theft. This is the only perfect truism that has been uttered on the subject.

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While browsing in a second-hand bookshop one day, George Bernard Shaw was amused to find a copy of one of his own works which he himself had inscribed for a friend: "To ----, with esteem, George Bernard Shaw." He immediately purchased the book and returned it to the friend with a second inscription: "With renewed esteem, George Bernard Shaw.

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German and Spanish are accessible to foreigners: English is not accessible even to Englishmen.

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If the governments devalue the currency in order to betray all creditors, you politely call this procedure 'inflation'.

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That is the whole secret of successful fighting. Get your enemy at a disadvantage; and never, on any account, fight him on equal terms.

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The best reformers the world has ever seen are those who commence on themselves.

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We want a few mad people now. See where the sane ones have landed us!

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Reformers have the idea that change can be achieved by brute sanity.

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