George Bernard Shaw quotes - page 23

Crime is only the retail department of what, in wholesale, we call penal law. (George Bernard Shaw)
When commenting on the turmoil and disorder of the world, If the other planets are inhabited, they must be using this earth as their insane asylum. View quote
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No king on earth is as safe in his job as a Trade Union official. There is only one thing that can get him sacked and that is drink. Not even that, as long as he doesn't actually fall down. View quote
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What God hath joined together no man shall ever put asunder God will take care of that. View quote
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Money is the most important thing in the world. It represents health, strength, honor, generosity, and beauty as conspicuously as the want of it represents illness, weakness, disgrace, meanness, and ugliness. View quote
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The mathematician is fascinated with the marvelous beauty of the forms he constructs, and in their beauty he finds everlasting truth. View quote
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The camera can represent flesh so superbly that, if I dared, I would never photograph a figure without asking that figure to take its clothes off. View quote
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Never waste jealousy on a real man it is the imaginary man that supplants us all in the long run. View quote
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Man is the only animal which esteems itself rich in proportion to the number and voracity of its parasites. View quote
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Brigham Young lived to become immortal in history as an American Moses by leading his people through the wilderness into an unpromised land. View quote
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If you cannot attain knowledge without torturing a dog, you must do without knowledge. (George Bernard Shaw)
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? View quote
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Marry Ann and at the end of a week youll find no more inspiration in her than in a plate of muffins. View quote
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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. View quote
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We know there is intention and purpose in the universe, because there is intention and purpose in us. View quote
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I hope you have lost your good looks, for while they last any fool can adore you, and the adoration of fools is bad for the soul. No, give me a ruined complexion and a lost figure and sixteen chins on a farmyard of Crow's feet and an obvious wig. Then you shall see me coming out strong. View quote
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The ordinary man is an anarchist. He wants to do as he likes. He may want his neighbour to be governed, but he himself doesn't want to be governed. He is mortally afraid of government officials and policemen. View quote
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Of all the anti-social vested interests the worst is the vested interest in ill-health. View quote
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Put an Irishman on the spit and you can always get another Irishman to turn him. View quote
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Modern poverty is not the poverty that was blest in the Sermon on the Mount. View quote
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Has fear ever held a man back from anything he really wanted. (George Bernard Shaw)
Affection between adults - if they are really adult in mind and not merely grown up children - and creatures so relatively selfish and cruel as children necessarily are without knowing it or meaning it, cannot be called natural. View quote
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The statesman cannot govern without stability of belief, true or false. View quote
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What is the use of straining after an amiable view of things, when a cynical view is most likely to be the true one. View quote
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Martyrdom is the only path to immortality that requires no talent whatsoever. View quote
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