George Bernard Shaw Quotes, Moving Quotes, Prejudice Quotes

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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The shot Irishmen will now take their places beside Emmet and the Manchester Martyrs in Ireland, and beside the heroes of Poland and Sérbia and Belgium in Europe; and nothing in heaven or earth can prevent it.

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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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Civilization is a disease produced by the practice of building societies with rotten material.

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Reviewing has one advantage over suicide: in suicide you take it out on yourself; in reviewing you take it out on other people.

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The truth is, hardly any of us have ethical energy enough for more than one really inflexible point of honor.

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Those who do not know how to live must make a merit of dying.

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The British are apt to make merits of their stupidities, and to represent their various incapacities as points of good breeding.

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The plain working truth is that it is not only good for people to be shocked occasionally, but absolutely necessary to the progress of society that they should be shocked pretty often.

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A nap, my friend, is a brief period of sleep which overtakes superannuated persons when they endeavor to entertain unwelcome visitors or to listen to scientific lectures.

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All progress is due to the unreasonable person.

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Science can never solve one problem without raising ten more problems.

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Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.

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Only where there is pecuniary equality can the distinction of merit stand out.

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It is easy - terribly easy - to shake a man's faith in himself. To take advantage of that to break a man's spirit is devil's work.

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It would positively be a relief to me to dig Shakespeare up and throw stones at him.

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It is monstrous that custom should force us to display our faces ostentatiously, however worn and wrinkled and mean they may be, whilst carefully concealing all our other parts, however shapely and well preserved.

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Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life.

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He who has nothing to assert has no style and can have none: he who has something to assert will go as far in power of style as its momentousness and his conviction will carry him

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I'm an atheist and I thank God for it.

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