George Bernard Shaw Quotes, Death Quotes, Art Quotes

In the arts of life main invents nothing; but in the arts of death he outdoes Nature herself, and produces by chemistry and machinery all the slaughter of plague, pestilence and famine. ... There is nothing in Man's industrial machinery but his greed and sloth: his heart is in his weapons.

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Think of the fierce energy concentrated in an acorn! You bury it in the ground, and it explodes into an oak! Bury a sheep, and nothing happens but decay.

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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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I would exchange every painting of Christ for one snapshot.

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When people shake their heads because we are living in a restless age, ask them how they would like to life in a stationary one, and do without change

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I find that socialism is often misunderstood by its least intelligent supporters and opponents to mean simply unrestrained indulgence of our natural propensity to heave bricks at respectable persons.

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Happiness and beauty are by-products. Folly is the direct pursuit of happiness and beauty.

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When a heretic wishes to avoid martyrdom he speaks of "Orthodoxy, True and False" and demonstrates that the True is his heresy.

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Of all the damnable waste of human life that ever was invented, clerking is the worst.

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I can't control what life did to me, but I can control how I react. Therein lies the difference.

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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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Ye poor posterity, think not that ye are the first. Other fools before ye have seen the sun rise and set, and the moon change her shape and her hour. As they were so ye are; and yet not so great; for the pyramids my people built stand to this day; whilst the dustheaps on which ye slave, and which ye call empires, scatter in the wind even as ye pile your dead sons' bodies on them to make yet more dust.

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Man is the only animals of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid.

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Let not the right side of your brain know what the left side doeth.

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You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul.

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Being hurt by someone you truly care about leaves a hole in you heart that only love can fill.

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The real moment of success is not the moment apparent to the crowd.

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In the right key one can say anything. In the wrong key, nothing: the only delicate part is the establishment of the key.

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I assume that to prevent illness in later life, you should never have been born at all.

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Don't lose faith. Promise yourself that you will be a success story, and I promise you that all the forces of the universe will unite to come to your aid; you might not feel today or for a while, but the longer you wait the bigger the prize.

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