George Bernard Shaw Quotes, Confused Quotes, Hero Quotes

No age or condition is without its heroes . The least incapable general in a nation is its Cæsar, the least imbecile statesman its Solon , the least confused thinker its Socrates , the least commonplace poet its Shakespeare .

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We should find ourselves committed to killing a great many people whom we now leave living, and to leave living a great many people whom we at present kill. We should have to get rid of all ideas about capital punishment.

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We are more gullible and superstitious today than we were in the Middle Ages, and an example of modern credulity is the widespread belief that the Earth is round. The average man can advance not a single reason for thinking that the Earth is round. He merely swallows this theory because there is something about it that appeals to the twentieth century mentality.

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From Mozart I learnt to say important things in a conversational way.

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Love is an appetite which, like all other appetites, is destroyed for the moment by its gratification.

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Syllables govern the world.

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I never expect a soldier to think.

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God made the world as an artist and that is why the world must learn from its artists.

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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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The goal of an artist is to create the definitive work that cannot be surpassed.

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The greatest of evils and the worst of crimes is poverty.

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What you are to do without me I cannot imagine.

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Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does.

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We are told that when Jehovah created the world he saw that it was good what would he say now

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There is no accomplishment so easy to acquire as politeness and none more profitable.

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Schools and schoolmasters, as we have them today, are not popular as places of education and teachers, but rather prisons and turnkeys in which children are kept to prevent them disturbing and chaperoning their parent.

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The worst cliques are those which consist of one man.

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Laws, religions, creeds, and systems of ethics, instead of making society better than its best unit, make it worse than its average unit, because they are never up to date.

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All progress is due to the unreasonable person.

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There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it.

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