George Bernard Shaw Quotes, Land Quotes, Eugenics Quotes

A part of eugenic politics would finally land us in an extensive use of the lethal chamber. A great many people would have to be put out of existence simply because it wastes other people's time to look after them.

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Alcohol is a very necessary article. It enables Parliament to do things at eleven at night that no sane person would do at eleven in the morning.

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In a hospital they throw you out into the street before you are half cured, but in a nursing home they don't let you out till you are dead.

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Don't order any black things. Rejoice in his memory; and be radiant: leave grief to the children. Wear violet and purple. Be patient with the poor people who will snivel: they don't know; and they think they will live for ever, which makes death a division instead of a bond.

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My opportunities were still there, nay, they multiplied tenfold; but the strength and youth to cope with them began to fail, and to need eking out with the shifty cunning of experience.

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Money is indeed the most important thing in the world; and all sound and successful personal and national morality should have this fact for its basis.

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A moderately honest man with a moderately faithful wife, moderate drinkers both, in a moderately healthy house: that is the true middle class unit.

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The sex illusion is not a fixed quantity: not what mathematicians call a constant. It varies from zero in my wife's case to madness in that of our stepsister.

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Dancing is a very crude attempt to get into the rhythm of life.

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This is the true joy in life: Being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one, being a force of nature instead of a feverish, selfish little clod of ailments and grievances, complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy. I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community and as long as I live, it is my privilege to do for it what I can. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got hold of for the moment and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.

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To endure the pain of living, we all drug ourselves more or less with gin, with literature, with superstitions, with romance, with idealism, political, sentimental, and moral, with every possible preparation of that universal hashish: imagination.

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You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.

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Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness.

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Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous.

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Ireland, sir, for good or evil, is like no other place under heaven, and no man can touch its sod or breathe its air without becoming better or worse.

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Imprisonment, as it exists today, is a worse crime than any of those committed by its victims.

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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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People get tired of everything, and of nothing sooner than of what they most like.

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I believe in Michelangelo, Velasquez, and Rembrandt; in the might of design, the mystery of color, the redemption of all things by Beauty everlasting, and the message of Art that has made these hands blessed. Amen. Amen.

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It is the mark of a truly intelligent person to be moved by statistics.

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