George Bernard Shaw Quotes, Truth Quotes, Honesty Quotes

The truth is, hardly any of us have ethical energy enough for more than one really inflexible point of honor.

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We are compelled by the theory of God's already achieved perfection to make Him a devil as well as a god, because of the existenceof evil. The god of love, if omnipotent and omniscient, must be the god of cancer and epilepsy as well.... Whoever admits that anything living is evil must either believe that God is malignantly capable of creating evil, or else believe that God has made many mistakes in His attempts to make a perfect being.

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There is nothing more dangerous than the conscience of a bigot.

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You sometimes have to answer a woman according to her womanliness, just as you have to answer a fool according to his folly.

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

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Golf is typical capitalist luncay.

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All government is cruel; for nothing is so cruel as impunity.

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[Chess] is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever, when they are only wasting their time.

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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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When a bishop at the first shot abandons the worship of Christ and rallies his flock round the altar of Mars, he may be acting patriotically... but that does not justify him in pretending...that Christ is, in effect, Mars.

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Better never than late.

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No severity of punishment deters when detection is uncertain, as it always must be.

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People get nothing out of books but what they bring to them.

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

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I object to publishers: the one service they have done me is to teach me to do without them. They combine commercial rascality with artistic touchiness and pettishness, without being either good business men or fine judges of literature.

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There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.

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God has given us a world that nothing but our own folly keeps from being a paradise.

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I no longer desire happiness: life is nobler than that.

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The art of manipulating public opinion, which is a necessary art for the democratic politician, and, like other arts, is sometimespractised with greater virtuosity by knaves than by honest men (who are apt to disdain it), has a different technique in different countries. For instance, in England we excel in whitewashing: in America they excel in tarring and feathering. We strain our nerves and stretch our consciences to avoid a scandal: Americans do the same to make one.

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Thus, I blush to add, you can not be a philosopher and a good man, though you may be a philosopher and a great one.

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