George Bernard Shaw Quotes, Principles Quotes, Incentives Quotes

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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I must keep some standard of principle fixed within myself.

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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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There are no principles; there are only events. There is no good and bad, there are only circumstances.

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A Louisiana politician can't afford to let his animosities carry him away, and still less his principles, although there is seldom difficulty in that department.

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If one sticks too rigidly to one's principles, one would hardly see anybody.

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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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A good principle not rightly understood may prove as hurtful as a bad.

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The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable.

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The National Health Service is safe with us. The principle of adequate healthcare should be provided for all regardless of ability to pay must be the function of any arrangements for financing the NHS. We stand by that.

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The first principle of all action is leisure.

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One principle is the universality of freedom. I'm a freedom lover.

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Principle of "Christian love": it insists upon being well paid in the end.

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The Democrats should not waiver on our core beliefs and principles.

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[Republicans] swapped principle for power. They ended up with neither. They deserved to lose.

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The one great principle of the English law is, to make business for itself. There is no other principle distinctly, certainly, and consistently maintained through all its narrow turnings.

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No science ever defends its first principles.

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God is not a person. God is an eternal principle.

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The Tao principle is what happens of itself.

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A maxim is a conclusion upon observation of matters of fact, and is merely speculative; a "principle" carries knowledge within itself, and is prospective.

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