George Bernard Shaw Quotes, War Quotes, World Quotes

There is the eternal war between those who are in the world for what they can get out of it and those who are in the world to make it a better place for everybody to live in.

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Women are called womanly only when they regard themselves as existing solely for the use of men.

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Let not the right side of your brain know what the left side doeth.

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My only policy is to profess evil and do good.

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You can feel nothing but a torment, and believe nothing but a lie. You will not raise your head to look at all the miracles of life that surround you; but you will run ten miles to see a fight or a death.

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One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't.

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What right has any human being to talk of bringing up a child? You do not bring up a tree or a plant. It brings itself up. You have to give it a fair chance by tilling the soil.

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The right to know is like the right to live. It is fundamental and unconditional in its assumption that knowledge, like life, is a desirable thing.

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An Englishman does everything on principle: he fights you on patriotic principles; he robs you on business principles; he enslaves you on imperial principles.

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War can so easily be gilt with romance and heroism and solemn national duty and patriotism and the like by persons whose superficial literary and oratorical talent covers an abyss of Godforsaken folly.

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In literature the ambition of the novice is to acquire the literary language; the struggle of the adept is to get rid of it.

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This is the true joy in life: Being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one, being a force of nature instead of a feverish, selfish little clod of ailments and grievances, complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy. I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community and as long as I live, it is my privilege to do for it what I can. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got hold of for the moment and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.

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Security, the chief pretense of civilization, cannot exist where the worst of dangers, the danger of poverty, hangs over everyone's head.

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He who confuses political liberty with freedom and political equality with similarity has never thought for five minutes about either.

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Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.

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Modern poverty is not the poverty that was blest in the Sermon on the Mount.

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Jesus remains unshaken as the practical man; and we stand exposed as the fools, the blunderers, the unpractical visionaries.

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People who are hard, grasping and always ready to take advantage of their neighbors become very rich.

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It is feeling that sets a man thinking, and not thought that sets him feeling.

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The educated man is a greater nuisance than the uneducated one.

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