George Bernard Shaw Quotes, Philosophy Quotes, Men Quotes

The more ignorant men are, the more convinced are they that their little parish and their little chapel is an apex to which civilization and philosophy has painfully struggled up the pyramid of time from a desert of savagery.

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The churches must learn humility as well as teach it.

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All religions begin with a revolt against morality, and perish when morality conquers them.

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There is only one universal passion fear.

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Physically there is nothing to distinguish human society from the farm-yard except that children are more troublesome and costly than chickens and calves and that men and women are not so completely enslaved as farm stock.

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Rich men without convictions are more dangerous in modern society than poor women without chastity.

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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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I make a fortune from criticizing the policy of the government, and then hand it over to the government in taxes to keep it going.

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The apparent multiplication of gods is bewildering at the first glance, but you soon discover that they are the same GOD. There is always one uttermost God who defies personification. This makes Hinduism the most tolerant religion in the world, because its one transcendent God includes all possible gods. In fact Hinduism is so elastic and so subtle that the most profound Methodist, and crudest idolater, are equally at home with it.

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The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that's the essence of inhumanity.

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Why, except as a means of livelihood, a man should desire to act on the stage when he has the whole world to act in, is not clear to me.

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The lesson intended by an author is hardly ever the lesson the world chooses to learn from his book.

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Life on board a pleasure steamer violates every moral and physical condition of healthy life except fresh air. . . . It is a guzzling, lounging, gambling, dog's life. The only alternative to excitement is irritability.

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The British churchgoer prefers a severe preacher because he thinks a few home truths will do his neighbors no harm.

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

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Where there is no knowledge ignorance calls itself science.

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A little learning is a dangerous thing, but we must take that risk because a little is as much as our biggest heads can hold.

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Capitalism justified itself and was adopted as an economic principle on the express ground that it provides selfish motives for doing good, and that human beings will do nothing except for selfish motives

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A conquered nation is like a man with cancer: he can think of nothing else.

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Our ideals, like the gods of old, are constantly demanding human sacrifices.

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