George Bernard Shaw Quotes, Change Quotes, People Quotes

When people shake their heads because we are living in a restless age, ask them how they would like to life in a stationary one, and do without change

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Stay at home in your mind. Don't recite other people's opinions.

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We are a British nation with British characteristics. Every country can take some small minorities and in many ways they add to the richness and variety of this country. The moment the minority threatens to become a big one, people get frightened.

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I ... ran for Legislature [in 1832] ... and was beaten-the only time I have been beaten by the people.

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The person who is really in revolt is the optimist, who generally lives and dies in a desperate and suicidal effort to persuade other people how good they are.

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every secret of a writer's soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works, yet we require critics to explain the one and biographers to expound the other. That time hangs heavy on people's hands is the only explanation of the monstrous growth.

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I never wish to be easily defined. I’d rather float over other people’s minds as something strictly fluid and non-perceivable; more like a transparent, paradoxically iridescent creature rather than an actual person.

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I claim to have been a lifelong and wholly disinterested friend of the British people.

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We read many books, because we cannot know enough people.

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If people are being abused or even killed during an arrest, this is highly disturbing.

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I would push purchasing power - you push out $1,000 of purchasing to those people, it's going to get - it's going to get spent. And it needs to be spent. They need it. And it should come, to some extent, from guys like me.

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You must not on any account give me credit for being penetrating. I have impressed people that way before, and the result is always disaster.

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There are all kinds of people, and in the attempt to build up a solidarity among them, defects of each one affect all the others.

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If you belong to an in-group of good, or saved, or elite people, you can only know that you’re in because someone else is out. You cannot live on the right side of the tracks without there being a wrong side of the tracks, so you ought to be grateful to the outside for having the privilege of being on the inside.

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Islam, as practiced by the vast majority of people, is a peaceful religion.

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What makes people hard-hearted is this, that each man has, or fancies he has, as much as he can bear in his own troubles.

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I despise people who depend on these things [heroin and cocaine]. If you really want a mind-altering experience, look at a tree.

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More people are realising that ISIL's not a caliphate. It's a crime ring.

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It does not in the least concern me whether I shall have at the end of my life thirty people who understand or three hundred. I am like an artist who paints a picture because he must, otherwise he is unhappy - not unhappy, but he must obey that creative impulse.

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Mama always said a good family has one heartbeat. No one knows you like the people you live with, and no one will take up your cause to the outside world quite like your blood relatives.

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