George Bernard Shaw Quotes, School Quotes, Ignorance Quotes

It is the inefficiency and sham of ... our schools ... that save us from being dashed on the rocks of false doctrine instead of drifting down the midstream of mere ignorance.

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Every man is a revolutionist concerning the thing he understands. For example, every person who has mastered a profession is a skeptic concerning it, and consequently a revolutionist.

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If you can’t appreciate what you’ve got, you’d better get what you can appreciate.

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I also made it quite clear that Socialism means equality of income or nothing, and that under socialism you would not be allowed to be poor. You would be forcibly feed, clothed, lodged, taught, and employed whether you like it or not. If it were discovered that you had not character enough to be worth all this trouble, you might possibly be executed in a kindly manner; but whilst you were permitted to live you would have to live well.

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All autobiographies are lies. I do not mean unconscious, unintentional lies: I mean deliberate lies.

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Hypocrisy ... is only bad when it is improperly used.

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In your dread of dictators you established a state of society in which every ward boss is a dictator, every private employer a dictator, every financier a dictator, all with the livelihood of the workers at his mercy, and no public responsibility.

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Custom will reconcile people to any atrocity, and fashion will drive them to acquire any custom.

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It was from Handel that I learned that style consists in force of assertion.

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As an old soldier, I admit the cowardice: it's as universal as seasickness, and matters just as little.

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Hell is full of musical amateurs.

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You don't expect me to know what to say about a play when I don't know who the author is, do you? . . . If it's by a good author, it's a good play, naturally. That stands to reason.

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People have pointed out evidences of personal feeling in my notices as if they were accusing me of a misdemeanor, not knowing that criticism written without personal feeling is not worth reading. It is the capacity for making good or bad art a personal matter that makes a man a critic.

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My opportunities were still there, nay, they multiplied tenfold; but the strength and youth to cope with them began to fail, and to need eking out with the shifty cunning of experience.

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Every step of progress means a duty repudiated, and a scripture torn up.

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The domestic career is no more natural to all women than the military career is natural to all men.

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We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.

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Christmas is forced upon a reluctant and disgusted nation by the shopkeepers and the press; on its own merits it would wither and shrivel in the fiery breath of universal hatred.

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Marx's Kapital is not a treatise on socialism; it is a gerrymand against the bourgeoisie. It was supposed to be written for the working class, but the working man respects the bourgeoisie and wants to be a bourgeoisie. Marx never got a hold of him for a moment. It was the revolting sons of the bourgeoisie itself, like myself, that painted the flag red. The middle and upper classes are the revolutionary element in society. The proletariat is the conservative element.

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The righteous man takes his life in his hand whenever he utters the truth.

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