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 has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force. But even Capitalist cynicism will admit that however unconscionable we may be when our own interests are affected, we can be most indignantly virtuous at the expense of others.

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If you must hold yourself up to your children as an object lesson, hold yourself up as a warning and not as an example.

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An election is a moral horror, as bad as a battle except for the blood; a mud bath for every soul concerned in it.

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Decency is indecency's conspiracy of silence

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A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.

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I claim to be a conscientiously immoral writer.

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Faith in reason as a prime motor is no longer the criterion of the sound mind, any more than faith in the Bible is the criterion of righteous intention.

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What is self-control? It is nothing but a highly developed vital sense, dominating and regulating the mere appetites. To overlook the very existence of this supreme sense; to miss the obvious inference that it is the quality that distinguishes the fittest to survive.

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What a man believes may be ascertained, not from his creed, but from the assumptions on which he habitually acts.

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To endure the pain of living, we all drug ourselves more or less with gin, with literature, with superstitions, with romance, with idealism, political, sentimental, and moral, with every possible preparation of that universal hashish: imagination.

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You are all fundamentalists with a top dressing of science. That is why you are the stupidest of conservatives and reactionists in politics and the most bigoted of obstructionists in science itself. When it comes to getting a move on you are all of the same opinion: stop it, flog it, hang it, dynamite it, stamp it out.

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Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous.

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Every profession is a conspiracy against the laity.

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The theory that music has a depraving effect on morals has now been abandoned to the old women of both sexes.

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Tradition will accustom people to any atrocity

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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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Whenever I see the word Operation, especially Trifling Operation, I at once write off the patient as dead.

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Some persons, by hating vice too much, come to love men too little. Hatred is self-punishment. Hatred is the cowards revenge for being intimidated.

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You have set up in New York Harbor a monstrous idol which you call Liberty. The only thing that remains to complete that monument is to put on its pedestal the inscription written by Dante on the gate of hell: All hope abandon ye who enter here.

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