George Bernard Shaw Quotes, Church Quotes, States Quotes

Blasphemy and sedition (meaning the truth about Church and State).

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I dislike feeling at home when I am abroad.

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The truth sticks in our throats with all the sauces it is served with: it will never go down until we take it without any sauce at all.

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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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The notion that persons should be safe from extermination as long as they do not commit willful murder, or levy war against the Crown, or kidnap, or throw vitriol, is not only to limit social responsibility unnecessarily, and to privilege the large range of intolerable misconduct that lies outside them, but to divert attention from the essential justification for extermination, which is always incorrigible social incompatibility and nothing else.

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The world was to Shakespeare a great stage of fools on which he was utterly bewildered. His pregnant observations of life are not coordinated into any philosophy.

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A mind of the caliber of mine cannot derive its nutrient from cows.

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In literature the ambition of the novice is to acquire the literary language; the struggle of the adept is to get rid of it.

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There is not one single established religion that an intelligent, educated man can believe.

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HIGGINS. Have you no morals, man? DOOLITTLE [unabashed] Cant afford them, Governor. Neither could you if you was as poor as me.

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Every man over forty is a scoundrel.

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Well, sir, you never can tell. That's a principle in life with me, sir, if you'll excuse my having such a thing.

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A true artist will let his wife starve, his children go barefoot, his mother drudge for his living at seventy, sooner than work at anything but his art.

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The sex relation is not a personal relation. It can be irresistibly desired and rapturously consummated between persons who could not endure one another for a day in any other relation.

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We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.

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Grain by grain, a loaf. Stone upon stone, a palace.

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All roads end at the grave, which is the gate to nothingness.

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Conceive. That is the word that means both the beginning in imagination and the end in creation.

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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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You must not suppose, because I am a man of letters, that I never tried to earn an honest living.

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