George Bernard Shaw Quotes, Believe Quotes, Sacrifice Quotes

A dinner! How horrible! I am to be made the pretext for killing all those wretched animals and birds, and fish! Thank you for nothing. Now if it were to be a fast instead of a feast; say a solemn three days' abstention from corpses in my honour, I could at least pretend to believe that it was disinterested. Blood sacrifices are not in my line

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The notion that disarmament can put a stop to war is contradicted by the nearest dogfight.

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There is, on the whole, nothing on earth intended for innocent people so horrible as a school. To begin with, it is a prison. But in some respects more cruel than a prison. In a prison, for instance, you are not forced to read books written by the warders and the governor. . . .In the prison you are not forced to sit listening to turnkeys discoursing without charm or interest on subjects that they don't understand and don't care about, and therefore incapable of making you understand or care about. In a prison they may torture your body; but they do not torture your brains.

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Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness.

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The minorities are sometimes right. The majorities never.

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The first prison I ever saw had inscribed on it CEASE TO DO EVIL: LEARN TO DO WELL; but as the inscription was on the outside, the prisoners could not read it.

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I don't. I look my age; and I am my age. It is the other people who look older than they are. What can you expect from people who eat corpses and drink spirits?

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No question is so difficult to answer as that to which the answer is obvious.

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I have not wasted my life trifling with literary fools in taverns, as Johnson did, when he should have been shaking England with the thunder of his spirit

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When our relatives are at home, we have to think of all their good points or it would be impossible to endure them.

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Reason enslaves all whose minds are not strong enough to master her.

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Plato long ago pointed out the importance of being governed by men with sufficient sense of responsibility and comprehension of public duties to be very reluctant to undertake the work of governing.

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Once there was a time when all people believed in God and the church ruled. This time is called the Dark Ages. He who can, does. He who cannot teaches.

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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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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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Beware of the man whose God is in the skies.

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Education can and should do much influence social, moral and intellectual discovery by stimulating critical attitudes of thought in the young

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The conversion of Paul was no conversion at all; it was Paul who converted the religion that has raised one man above sin and death.

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The test of a man or woman's breeding is how they behave in a quarrel.

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Man can climb to the highest summits, but he cannot dwell there long.

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