George Bernard Shaw Quotes, Biblical Quotes, Temptation Quotes

Never resist temptation: prove all things: hold fast that which is good.

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But whether the risks to which liberty exposes us are moral or physical our right to liberty involves the right to run them. A man who is not free to risk his neck as an aviator or his soul as a heretic is not free at all; and the right to liberty begins, not at the age of 21 years but 21 seconds.

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A modern gentleman [rich person] is necessarily the enemy of his country. Even in war he does not fight to defend it, but to prevent his power of preying on it from passing to a foreigner.

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The haughty American nation ... makes the Negro clean its boots and then proves the moral and physical inferiority of the Negro by the fact that he is a bootblack.

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Though all society is founded on intolerance, all improvement is founded on tolerance.

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Our political experiment of democracy, the last refuge of cheap misgovernment.

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I occasionally swank a little because people like it; a modest man is such a nuisance.

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Man gives every reason for his conduct save one, every excuse for his crimes save one, every plea for his safety save one; and that one is his cowardice

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I really don't think I could consent to go to Heaven if I thought there were no animals there.

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Our way of getting an army able to fight the German army is to declare war on Germany just as if we had such an army, and then trust to the appalling resultant peril and disaster to drive us into wholesale enlistment.

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Those who do not know how to live must make a merit of dying.

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The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.

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If you must hold yourself up to your children as an object lesson, hold yourself up as a warning and not as an example.

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If you eliminate smoking and gambling, you will be amazed to find that almost all an Englishman's pleasures can be, and mostly are, shared by his dog.

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I have prophesied about the faith of Muhammad that it would be acceptable to the Europe of tomorrow as it is beginning to be acceptable to the Europe of today. ... I believe that if a man like him were to assume the dictatorship of the modern world he would succeed in solving its problems in a way that would bring it the much-needed peace and happiness.

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

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No elaboration of physical or moral accomplishment can atone for the sin of parasitism.

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The savage bows down to idols of wood and stone, the civilized man to idols of flesh and blood

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Social questions are too sectional, too topical, too temporal to move a man to the mighty effort which is needed to produce greatpoetry. Prison reform may nerve Charles Reade to produce an effective and businesslike prose melodrama; but it could never produce Hamlet, Faust, or Peer Gynt.

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My rank is the highest known in Switzerland: I'm a free citizen.

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