George Bernard Shaw Quotes, Responsibility Quotes, Eugenics Quotes

The moment we face it frankly we are driven to the conclusion that the community has a right to put a price on the right to live in it ... If people are fit to live, let them live under decent human conditions. If they are not fit to live, kill them in a decent human way. Is it any wonder that some of us are driven to prescribe the lethal chamber as the solution for the hard cases which are at present made the excuse for dragging all the other cases down to their level, and the only solution that will create a sense of full social responsibility in modern populations?

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It is clear that a novel cannot be too bad to be worth publishing. . . . It certainly is possible for a novel to be too good to be worth publishing.

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Nobody could stand an eternity of Heaven.

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A man's behaviour may be quite harmless and even beneficial, when he ismorally behaving like a scoundrel. And he may do great harm when he is morally acting on the highest principles.

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An idea that no one believes can not be proved too often.

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Those who minister to poverty and disease are accomplices in the two worst of all the crimes.

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O Lord! I don't know which is the worst of the country, the walking or the sitting at home with nothing to do.

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Experience fails to teach where there is no desire to learn.

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You know, Tolstoy, like myself, wasn't taken in by superstitions like science and medicine.

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Words are only postage stamps delivering the object for you to unwrap

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I dread success. To have succeeded is to have finished one's business on earth, like the male spider who is killed by the female the moment he has succeeded in his courtship. I like the state of continual becoming, with a goal in front and not behind.

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It's easier to replace a dead man than a good picture.

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Every man over forty is a scoundrel.

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The person who is ignorant enough to believe that his nourishment depends on meat is in a horrible dilemma.

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Instead of Otello being an Italian opera written in the style of Shakespeare, Othello is a play written by Shakespeare in the style of Italian opera.

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A veteran journalist has never had time to think twice before he writes.

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The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.

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I knew if I waited around long enough something like this would happen.

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I try to follow his example, not to imitate him.

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I have my own soul. My own spark of divine fire.

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