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George Bernard Shaw quotes - page 21
As a red hot Communist I am in favour of fascism. The only drawback to Sir Oswald's movement is that it is not quite British enough.
George Bernard Shaw
The savage bows down to idols of wood and stone, the civilized man to idols of flesh and blood.
George Bernard Shaw
Folly is the direct pursuit of happiness and beauty.
George Bernard Shaw
Human beings are the only animals of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid.
George Bernard Shaw
Property is organised robbery.
George Bernard Shaw
We are ashamed of everything that is real about us ashamed of ourselves, of our relatives, of our incomes, of our accents, of our opinions,of our experience, just as we are ashamed of our naked skins.
George Bernard Shaw
Common people do not pray they only beg.
George Bernard Shaw
Gambling promises the poor what property performs for the rich -- something for nothing.
George Bernard Shaw
Kings are not born they are made by universal hallucination.
George Bernard Shaw
The greatest of God's names is Counsellor; and when your Empire is dust and your name a byword among the nations the temples of the living God shall still ring with his praise as Wonderful! Counsellor! the Everlasting Father, the Prince of Peace.
George Bernard Shaw
(en) "I have always held the religion of Muhammad in high estimation because of its wonderful vitality. It is the only religion which appears to me to possess that assimilating capacity to the changing phase of existence which can make itself appeal to every age. I have studied him - the wonderful man and in my opinion far from being an anti-Christ, he must be called the Saviour of Humanity. I believe that if a man like him were to assume the dictatorship of the modern world, he would succeed in solving its problems in a way that would bring it the much needed peace and happiness: I have prophesied about the faith of Muhammad that it would be acceptable to the Europe of tomorrow. as it is beginning to be acceptable to the Europe of today."
George Bernard Shaw
Our necessities are few, but our wants are endless.
George Bernard Shaw
I am sick of reasonable people they see all the reasons for being lazy and doing nothing.
George Bernard Shaw
It is not disbelief that is dangerous to our society it is belief.
George Bernard Shaw
Christianity might be a good thing if anyone ever tried it.
George Bernard Shaw
Men are not governed by justice, but by law or persuasion. When they refuse to be governed by law or persuasion, they have to be governed by force or fraud, or both.
George Bernard Shaw
Gardening is the only unquestionably useful job.
George Bernard Shaw
Although I cannot lay an egg, I am a very good judge of omelettes.
George Bernard Shaw
It is easy terribly easy to shake a mans faith in himself. To take advantage of that to break a mans spirit is devils work.
George Bernard Shaw
New opinions often appear first as jokes and fancies, then as blasphemies and treason, then as questions open to discussion, and finally as established truths.
George Bernard Shaw
Life is too short for men to take it seriously.
George Bernard Shaw
Make money and the whole nation will conspire to call you a gentleman.
George Bernard Shaw
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