George Bernard Shaw quotes - page 9

When a heretic wishes to avoid martyrdom he speaks of "Orthodoxy, True and False" and demonstrates that the True is his heresy. (George Bernard Shaw)
A part of eugenic politics would finally land us in an extensive use of the lethal chamber. A great many people would have to be put out of existence simply because it wastes other people's time to look after them." View quote
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Swindon. What will History say? Burgoyne. History, sir, will tell lies, as usual. View quote
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We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing. View quote
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The only time my education was interrupted was when I was in school. View quote
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Every man over forty is a scoundrel. View quote
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The more I see of the moneyed classes, the more I understand the guillotine. View quote
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A cigarette is a pinch of tobacco rolled in paper with fire at one end and a fool at the other. View quote
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If any religion had the chance of ruling over England, nay Europe within the next hundred years, it could be Islam. View quote
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The sex relation is not a personal relation. It can be irresistibly desired and rapturously consummated between persons who could not endure one another for a day in any other relation. View quote
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Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself. (George Bernard Shaw)
A learned man is an idler who kills time by study. View quote
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Assassination is the extreme form of censorship. View quote
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The more a man possesses over and above what he uses, the more careworn he becomes. View quote
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I'm not a teacher only a fellow-traveller of whom you asked the way. I pointed ahead -- ahead of myself as well as you. View quote
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In an ugly and unhappy world the richest man can purchase nothing but ugliness and unhappiness. View quote
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The 100% American is 99% idiot. View quote
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When the master has come to do everything through the slave, the slave becomes his master, since he cannot live without him. View quote
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The most tragic thing in the world is a man of genius who is not a man of honor. View quote
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The English are not very spiritual people, so they invented cricket to give them some idea of eternity. View quote
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What's the use of money if you have to earn it. (George Bernard Shaw)
Where equality is undisputed, so also is subordination. View quote
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Never forget that if you leave your law to judges and your religion to bishops, you will presently find yourself without either law or religion. View quote
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The novelties of one generation are only the resuscitated fashions of the generation before last. View quote
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Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it. View quote
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