George Bernard Shaw Quotes, Honesty Quotes, Government Quotes

It is said that every people has the Government it deserves. It is more to the point that every Government has the electorate it deserves; for the orator of the front bench can edify or debauch an ignorant electorate at will.

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It is one of the mysterious ways of Allah to make women troublesome when he makes them beautiful.

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Blasphemy and sedition (meaning the truth about Church and State).

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Never repeat old grievances.

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The danger of crippling thought, the danger of obstructing the formation of the public mind by specially suppressing ... representations is far greater than any real danger that there is from such representations.

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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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When a man teaches something he does not know to somebody else who has no aptitude for it, and gives him a certificate of proficiency, the latter has completed the education of a gentleman.

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It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.

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The more a man possesses over and above what he uses, the more careworn he becomes.

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When you read a biography remember that the truth is never fit for publication.

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The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can't find them, make them.

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Take the utmost care to get well born and well brought up.

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Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.

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The notion that Nature does not proceed by jumps is only one of the budget of plausible lies that we call classical education. Nature always proceeds by jumps. She may spend twenty thousand years making up her mind to jump; but when she makes it up at last, the jump is big enough to take us into a new age.

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Well, upon my soul! You are not ashamed to stand there and confess yourself a disgusting drunkard.

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You must not suppose, because I am a man of letters, that I never tried to earn an honest living.

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The real Brahms is nothing more than a sentimental voluptuary

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It is in the hour of trial that a man finds his true profession.

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During the last considerable epidemic at the turn of the century, I was a member of the Health Committee of London Borough Council, and I learned how the credit of vaccination is kept up statistically by diagnosing all the revaccinated cases (of smallpox) as pustular eczema, varioloid or what not---except smallpox.

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Paradoxes are the only truths.

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