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

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To see others suffer does one good, to make others suffer even more: this is a hard saying but an ancient, mighty, human, all-too-human principle [....] Without cruelty there is no festival.

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The principles of Jefferson are the definitions and axioms of free society.

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I'm more inclined to linger in the science pages of 'The Week' magazine. But my principle obsessions are still watching sitcoms and football.

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It is my principle never to accept any donations from any government or any foreign funded organisation.

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The community which has neither poverty nor riches will always have the noblest principles.

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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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...virtue is not merely a state in conformity with the right principle, but one that implies the right principle; and the right principle in moral conduct is prudence.

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Prosperity is the best protector of principle.

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I have mastered the principles of several religions. They have all shocked me by the violence which I should have to do to my reason to accept the dogmas of any one of them.

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In every party there is one person who, through his dotingly credulous enunciation of party principles, incites the other members to defection.

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The world has no reason for fighting in our defense, and as a matter of principle God does not make cowardly nations free.

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Be sincere and true to your word, serious and careful in your actions; and you will get along even among barbarians, But if you are not sincere and untrustworthy in your speech, frivolous and careless in your actions, how will you get along even among your own neighbors? When stand, see these principles in front of you; in your carriage see them on the yoke. Then you may be sure to get along.

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Law grows, and though the principles of law remain unchanged, yet (and it is one of the advantages of the common law) their application is to be changed with the changing circumstances of the times. Some persons may call this retrogression, I call it progression of human opinion.

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We all live in the protection of certain cowardices which we call our principles.

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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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[A]lthough the principle of equality has always been self-evident, it has never been self-executing.

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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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My interest in science was always essentially limited to the study of principles.... That I have published so little is due to this same circumstance, as the great need to grasp principles has caused me to spend most of my time on fruitless pursuits.

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