George Bernard Shaw Quotes, Children Quotes, Selfish Quotes

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.

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The salvation of the world depends on the men who will not take evil good-humouredly, and whose laughter destroys the fool instead of encouraging him.

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I want to be all used up when I die.

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If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.

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The body was the slave of the vortex; but the slave has become the master; and we must free ourselves from that tyranny. It is this stuff [ indicating her body ], this flesh and blood and bone and all the rest of it, that is intolerable. Even prehistoric man dreamed of what he called an astral body, and asked who would deliver him from the body of this death.

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The thief who is in prison is not necessarily more dishonest than his fellows at large, but mostly one who, through ignorance or stupidity [or racism or poverty! - Draffan] steals in a way that is not customary. He snatches a loaf from the baker's counter and is promptly run into gaol. Another man snatches bread from the table of hundreds of widows and orphans and similar credulous souls who do not know the ways of company promoters; and, as likely as not, he is run into Parliament.

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I was convinced that Ceylon is the cradle of the human race because everybody there looks an original. All other nations are obviously mass produced.

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Beware of the man who does not return your blow: he neither forgives you nor allows you to forgive yourself.

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I become more convinced that beings from other planets are using the Earth as a lunatic asylum

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I am a brigand: I live by robbing the rich.' 'I am a gentleman: I live by robbing the poor.

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Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty; what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness.

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A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

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Man is the only animal which esteems itself rich in proportion to the number and voracity of its parasites.

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A book is like a child: it is easier to bring it into the world than to control it when it is launched there.

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Poverty doesn't bring unhappiness; it brings degradation.

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In the arts of peace Man is a bungler.

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If there is anything I hate in a woman, it's want of character.

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If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.

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Nothing is worth doing unless the consequences may be serious.

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I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community and as long as I live, it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can.

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