George Bernard Shaw Quotes, People Quotes, Weakness Quotes

Even to this day it is easier than it ought to be for me to get a rise out of an American by telling him something about himself which is equally true about every human being on the face of the globe. He at once resents this as a disparagement and an assertion on my part that people in other parts of the globe are not like that, and are loftily superior to such weaknesses.

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The test of good education is seeing how it behaves in a fight.

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The moment we face it frankly we are driven to the conclusion that the community has a right to put a price on the right to live in it

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The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.

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Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.

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The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

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Poverty does not produce unhappiness: It produces degradation.

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The only secrets are the secrets that keep themselves.

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Words are only postage stamps delivering the object for you to unwrap

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The right to know is like the right to live. It is fundamental and unconditional in its assumption that knowledge, like life, is a desirable thing.

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This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one.

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A happy family is but an earlier heaven.

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All classes in proportion to their lack of travel and familiarity with foreign literature are bellicose, prejudiced against foreigners, fond of fighting as a cruel sport - in short, dog-like in their notions of foreign policy.

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Nature holds no brief for the human experiment; it must stand or fall by its results.

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Don't think you can frighten me by telling me that I am alone. France is alone. God is alone. And the loneliness of God is His strength.

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The ordinary man is an anarchist. He wants to do as he likes. He may want his neighbour to be governed, but he himself doesn't want to be governed. He is mortally afraid of government officials and policemen.

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If parents would only realize how they bore their children.

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Woman's happiness begins with her first love and ends about then

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The medieval doctors of divinity who did not pretend to settle how many angels could dance on the point of a needle cut a very poor figure as far as romantic credulity is concerned beside the modern physicists who have settled to the billionth of a millimetre every movement and position in the dance of the electrons. Not for worlds would I question the precise accuracy of these calculations or the existence of electrons (whatever they may be). The fate of Joan is a warning to me against such heresy.

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I try to follow his example, not to imitate him.

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