George Bernard Shaw Quotes, People Quotes, Age Quotes

I don't. I look my age; and I am my age. It is the other people who look older than they are. What can you expect from people who eat corpses and drink spirits?

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We call the one side [of humanity] religion, and we call the other science. Religion is always right. ... Science is always wrong; it is the very artifice of men. Science can never solve one problem without raising ten more problems.

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I was a freethinker before I knew how to think.

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Though the Life Force supplies us with its own purpose, it has no other brains to work with than those it has painfully and imperfectly evolved in our heads.

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If the lesser mind could measure the greater as a foot-rule can measure a pyramid, there would be finality in universal suffrage. As it is, the political problem remains unsolved.

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All progress depends upon the unreasonable person.

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I work as my father drank.

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My religion? Well, my dear, I am a Millionaire. That is my religion.

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Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.

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Activity is the only road to knowledge.

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Somemenare bornkings; and someare bornstatesmen. The two are seldom the same.

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The statesman cannot govern without stability of belief, true or false.

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When two people are under the influence of the most violent, most insane, most delusive, and most transient of passions, they are required to swear that they will remain in that excited, abnormal, and exhausting condition continuously until death do them part.

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While browsing in a second-hand bookshop one day, George Bernard Shaw was amused to find a copy of one of his own works which he himself had inscribed for a friend: "To ----, with esteem, George Bernard Shaw." He immediately purchased the book and returned it to the friend with a second inscription: "With renewed esteem, George Bernard Shaw.

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There is in man a specific lust for cruelty which infects even his passion of pity and makes it savage.

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A man's interest in the world is only an overflow from his interest in himself.

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We are the living graves of murdered beasts, slaughtered to satisfy our appetites. How can we hope in this world to attain the peace we say we are so anxious for?

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The righteous man takes his life in his hand whenever he utters the truth.

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Our political experiment of democracy, the last refuge of cheap misgovernment.

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You can easily find people who are ten times as rich at sixty as they were at twenty but not one of them will tell you that they are ten times as happy

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