George Bernard Shaw Quotes, Selfish Quotes, Principles Quotes

Capitalism justified itself and was adopted as an economic principle on the express ground that it provides selfish motives for doing good, and that human beings will do nothing except for selfish motives

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There also appears to be another element in the soul, which, though irrational, yet in a manner participates in rational principle.

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Moral principle is a looser bond than pecuniary interest.

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I am comfortable that the principles that I articulated were never compromised.

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Never can a reforming sect survive if it is only reforming; the formative elements alone - the real impulse, that is, the principles - live on and on.

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Thanks to my fortunate idea of introducing the relativity principle into physics, you (and others) now enormously overrate my scientific abilities, to the point where this makes me quite uncomfortable.

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Enthusiastic Admiration is the first Principle of Knowledge and its last.

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Again, the male is by nature superior, and the female inferior; and the one rules, and the other is ruled; this principle, of necessity, extends to all mankind.

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You shall not, for the sake of one individual, change the meaning of principle and integrity.

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Gradually the conviction gained recognition that all knowledge about things is exclusively a working-over of the raw material furnished by the senses. ... Galileo and Hume first upheld this principle with full clarity and decisiveness.

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Let us, then, be what we are; speak what we think; and in all things keep ourselves loyal to truth.

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Principles without programs are platitudes.

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It is always more easy to discover and proclaim general principles than it is to apply them.

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You cannot have a theory without principles. Principles is another name for prejudices.

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I want to live out principles that became a part of my life in my 40s, 50s, and 60s. One principle is the universality of freedom.

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The value of a principle is the number of things it will explain.

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Capitalism drives the employers to do their worst to the employed, and the employed to do the least for them. And it boasts all the time of the incentive it provides to both to do their best! . . . The reason the Capitalist system has worked so far without jamming for more than a few months at a time, and then only in places, is that it has not yet succeeded in making a conquest of human nature so complete that everybody acts on strictly business principles.

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Non-cooperation in military matters should be an essential moral principle for all true scientists.

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The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable.

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Circumstances should never alter principles!

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