George Bernard Shaw Quotes, Animal Quotes, Thinking Quotes

I really don't think I could consent to go to Heaven if I thought there were no animals there.

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Who are those we love? Only those we do not hate.

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The road to ignorance is paved with good editions. Only the illiterate can afford to buy good books now.

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Money is the most important thing in the world. It represents health, strength, honor, generosity, and beauty as conspicuously as the want of it represents illness, weakness, disgrace, meanness, and ugliness.

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Modern poverty is not the poverty that was blest in the Sermon on the Mount.

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This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one.

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To endure the pain of living, we all drug ourselves more or less with gin, with literature, with superstitions, with romance, with idealism, political, sentimental, and moral, with every possible preparation of that universal hashish: imagination.

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Man gives every reason for his conduct save one, every excuse for his crimes save one, every plea for his safety save one; and that one is his cowardice

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You must all know half a dozen people at least who are no use in this world, who are more trouble than they are worth. Just put them there and say Sir, or Madam, now will you be kind enough to justify your existence? If you can't justify your existence, if you're not pulling your weight in the social boat, if you're not producing as much as you consume or perhaps a little more, then, clearly, we cannot use the organizations of our society for the purpose of keeping you alive, because your life does not benefit us and it can't be of very much use to yourself.

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Just as the liar 's punishment is, not in the least that he is not believed , but that he cannot believe any one else; so a guilty society can more easily be persuaded that any apparently innocent act is guilty than that any apparently guilty act is innocent.

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We should all be obliged to appear before a board every five years and justify our existence... on pain of liquidation.

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It's prudent to gain the whole world and lose your own soul. But don't forget that your soul sticks to you if you stick to it; but the world has a way of slipping through your fingers.

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Principles without programs are platitudes.

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In your dread of dictators you established a state of society in which every ward boss is a dictator, every private employer a dictator, every financier a dictator, all with the livelihood of the workers at his mercy, and no public responsibility.

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You accepted Allah or you had your throat cut by someone who did accept him, and who went to Paradise for having sent you to Hell.

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There is nothing on earth intended for innocent people so horrible as a school.

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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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If more than ten percent of the public likes a painting, it should be burned.

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A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

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The truth is, hardly any of us have ethical energy enough for more than one really inflexible point of honor.

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