George Bernard Shaw Quotes, Joy Quotes, Purpose Quotes

The joy in life is to be used for a purpose. I want to be used up when I die.

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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 am highly susceptible to the force of all truly religious music, especially to the music of my own church, the church of Shelley, Michelangelo, and Beethoven.

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I must have been an insufferable child; all children are.

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You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.

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When our relatives are at home, we have to think of all their good points or it would be impossible to endure them.

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Blasphemy and sedition (meaning the truth about Church and State).

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It is necessary for the welfare of society that genius should be privileged to utter sedition, to blaspheme, to outrage good taste, to corrupt the youthful mind, and generally to scandalize one's uncles.

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If only for a half hour a day, a child should do something serviceable to the community

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Not until he acquires European manners does the American anarchist become the gentleman who assures you that people cannot be mademoral by Act of Parliament (the truth being that it is only by Acts of Parliament that men in large communities can be made moral, even when they want to).

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The fact that we can become accustomed to anything, however disgusting at first, makes it necessary to examine carefully everything we have become accustomed to.

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Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.

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Political necessities sometime turn out to be political mistakes.

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The ability to make witty observations is commonly refered to as "cynism" by people who lack it.

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No sooner had Jesus knocked over the dragon of superstition than Paul boldly set it on its legs again in the name of Jesus.

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To be in hell is to drift; to be in heaven is to steer.

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Those who admire modern civilization usually identify it with the steam engine and the electric telegraph.

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There is no accomplishment so easy to acquire as politeness and none more profitable.

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The more I see of the moneyed classes, the more I understand the guillotine.

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Thus, I blush to add, you can not be a philosopher and a good man, though you may be a philosopher and a great one.

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