George Bernard Shaw Quotes, Exercise Quotes, Power Quotes

I talk democracy to these men and women. I tell them that they have the vote, and that theirs is the kingdom and the power and the glory. I say to them You are supreme: exercise your power. They say, That's right: tell us what to do; and I tell them. I say Exercise our vote intelligently by voting for me. And they do. That's democracy; and a splendid thing it is too for putting the right men in the right place.

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My rank is the highest known in Switzerland: I'm a free citizen.

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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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The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else.

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Disobedience, the rarest and most courageous of the virtues, is seldom distinguished from neglect, the laziest and commonest of the vices.

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Never fret for an only son, the idea of failure will never occur to him.

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Use your health, even to the point of wearing it out. That is what it is for. Spend all you have before you die; do not outlive yourself.

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I feel nothing but the accursed happiness I have dreaded all my life long: the happiness that comes as life goes, the happiness of yielding and dreaming instead of resisting and doing, the sweetness of the fruit that is going rotten.

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Assassination is the extreme form of censorship; and it seems hard to justify an incitement to it on anti-censorial principles.

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The world is populated in the main by people who should not exist

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Imagination is the beginning of creation.

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In gambling the many must lose in order that the few may win.

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Think of the fierce energy concentrated in an acorn! You bury it in the ground, and it explodes into an oak! Bury a sheep, and nothing happens but decay.

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I find that socialism is often misunderstood by its least intelligent supporters and opponents to mean simply unrestrained indulgence of our natural propensity to heave bricks at respectable persons.

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A pornographic novelist is one who exploits the sexual instinct as a prostitute does. A legitimate sex novel elucidates it or brings out its poetry, tragedy, or comedy.

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The unconscious self is the real genius. Your breathing goes wrong the moment your conscious self meddles with it.

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I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.

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What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.

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The criminal law is no use to decent people.

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Love is an appetite which, like all other appetites, is destroyed for the moment by its gratification.

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