George Bernard Shaw Quotes, Patriotic Quotes, Fighting Quotes

An Englishman does everything on principle: he fights you on patriotic principles; he robs you on business principles; he enslaves you on imperial principles.

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No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: he is always convinced that it says what he means.

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I am giving you examples of the fact that this creature man, who in his own selfish affairs is a coward to the backbone, will fight for an idea like a hero. . . . I tell you, gentlemen, if you can shew a man a piece of what he now calls God's work to do, and what he will later call by many new names, you can make him entirely reckless of the consequences to himself personally.

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In truth , mankind cannot be saved from without, by schoolmasters or any other sort of masters: it can only be lamed and enslaved by them. It is said that if you wash a cat it will never again wash itself. This may or may not be true : what is certain is that if you teach a man anything he will never learn it; and if you cure him of a disease he will be unable to cure himself the next time it attacks him.

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In heaven an angel is nobody in particular.

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He who desires a lifetime of happiness with a beautiful woman desires to enjoy the taste of wine by keeping his mouth always full of it.

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Poverty doesn't bring unhappiness; it brings degradation.

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No community has ever yet passed beyond the initial phases in which its pugnacity and fanaticism enabled it to found a nation, and its cupidity to establish and develop a commercial civilization.

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English is the easiest language to speak badly.

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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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Imprisonment, as it exists today, is a worse crime than any of those committed by its victims.

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This souls'prison we call England.

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Man is unique in that he has plans, purpose and goals which require the need for criteria of choice. The need for ethical value is within man whose future may largely be determined by the choice he make

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When domestic servants are treated as human beings it is not worth while to keep them.

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The capacity of any conqueror is more likely than not to be an illusion produced by the incapacity of his adversary.

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Your father is a fool skin deep; but you are a fool to your very marrow.

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The censorship method ... is that of handing the job over to some frail and erring mortal man, and making him omnipotent on the assumption that his official status will make him infallible and omniscient.

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Men are always thinking that they are going to do something grandly wicked to their enemies; but when it comes to the point, really bad men are just as rare as really good ones.

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I'm only a beer teetotaler, not a champagne teetotaler; I don't like beer.

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Remember that I too am mortal.

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