George Bernard Shaw Quotes, Prayer Quotes, People Quotes

Most of the money given by rich people in "charity" is made up of conscience money, "ransom," political bribery, and bids for titles.... One buys moral credit by signing a cheque, which is easier than turning a prayer wheel.

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Fine art is the subtlest, the most seductive, the most effective instrument of moral propaganda in the world, excepting only the example of personal conduct; and I waive even this exception in favor of the art of the stage, because it works by exhibiting examples of personal conduct made intelligible and moving to crowds of unobservant unreflecting people to whom real life means nothing.

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Let wife and child perish, and lay bricks for your last crust, rather than part with an iota of your [copy]rights.

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I never accepted a knighthood because to me, is honour enough?

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You propound a complicated arithmetical problem: say cubing a number containing four digits. Give me a slate and half an hour's time, and I can produce a wrong answer.

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When the horrors of anarchy force us to set up laws that forbid us to fight and torture one another for sport, we still snatch at every excuse for declaring individuals outside the protection of law and torturing them to our hearts content.

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I shall always be a flower girl to Professor Higgins, because he always treats me as a flower girl, and always will; but I know I can be a lady to you, because you always treat me as a lady, and always will.

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There was only one virtue, pugnacity; only one vice, pacifism. That is an essential condition of war.

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What is really important in Man is the part of him that we do not understand. Of much of it we are not even conscious, just as we are not normally conscious of keeping up our circulation by our heart-pump, though if we neglect it we die.

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What we call education and culture is for the most part nothing but the substitution of reading for experience, of literature for life, of the obsolete fictitious for the contemporary real.

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The novelties of one generation are only the resuscitated fashions of the generation before last.

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Marriage is good enough for the lower classes: they have facilities for desertion that are denied to us.

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I like flowers, I also like children, but I do not chop their heads off and keep them in bowls of water around the house.

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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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The universal regard for money is the one hopeful fact in our civilization.

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The longer I live, the more I realize that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time!

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People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances.

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The camera can represent flesh so superbly that, if I dared, I would never photograph a figure without asking that figure to take its clothes off.

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You have set up in New York Harbor a monstrous idol which you call Liberty. The only thing that remains to complete that monument is to put on its pedestal the inscription written by Dante on the gate of hell: All hope abandon ye who enter here.

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There is at bottom only one genuinely scientific treatment for all diseases, and that is to stimulate the phagocytes.

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