George Bernard Shaw Quotes, Dog Quotes, Animal Quotes

The Anti-Vivisector does not deny that physiologists must make experiments and even take chances with new methods. He says that they must not seek knowledge by criminal methods, just as they must not make money by criminal methods. He does not object to Galileo dropping cannon balls from the top of the leaning tower of Pisa; but he would object to shoving off two dogs or American tourists.

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My father must have had some elementary education for he could read and write and keep accounts inaccurately

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When you prevent me from doing anything I want to do, that is persecution; when I prevent you from doing anything you want to do, that is law, order, and morals.

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Whenever an obviously well founded statement is made in England by a person specially well acquainted with the facts, that unlucky person is instantly and frantically contradicted by all the people who obviously know nothing about it.

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Capitalism drives the employers to do their worst to the employed, and the employed to do the least for them. And it boasts all the time of the incentive it provides to both to do their best! . . . The reason the Capitalist system has worked so far without jamming for more than a few months at a time, and then only in places, is that it has not yet succeeded in making a conquest of human nature so complete that everybody acts on strictly business principles.

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As you say, I am honoured and famous and rich. But as I have to do all the hard work, and suffer an increasing multitude of fools gladly, it does not feel any better than being reviled, infamous and poor, as I used to be.

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It is ridiculous to say that art has nothing to do with morality. What is true is that the artist's business is not that of the policeman.

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But to admire a strong person and to live under that strong person’s thumb are two different things.

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The faults of the burglar are the qualities of the financier.

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Nobel Prize money is a life-belt thrown to a swimmer who has already reached the shore in safety.

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Be like the sun and meadow, which are not in the least concerned about the coming winter.

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When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work.

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Revolutionary moments attract those who are not good enough for established institutions as well as those who are too good for them.

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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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Love is an appetite which, like all other appetites, is destroyed for the moment by its gratification.

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The quality of a play is the quality of its ideas.

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A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

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I'm only a beer teetotaler, not a champagne teetotaler; I don't like beer.

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I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.

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Compassion is the fellow-feeling of the unsound.

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