George Bernard Shaw Quotes, Principles Quotes, Incentives Quotes

Capitalism drives the employers to do their worst to the employed, and the employed to do the least for them. And it boasts all the time of the incentive it provides to both to do their best! . . . The reason the Capitalist system has worked so far without jamming for more than a few months at a time, and then only in places, is that it has not yet succeeded in making a conquest of human nature so complete that everybody acts on strictly business principles.

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Effectiveness of assertion is the alpha and omega of style.

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Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.

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There is no satisfaction in hanging a man who does not object to it.

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I like flowers, I also like children, but I do not chop their heads off and keep them in bowls of water around the house.

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Nothing is more dangerous than a poor doctor: not even a poor employer or a poor landlord.

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Statistics show that of those who contract the habit of eating, very few survive.

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When a bishop at the first shot abandons the worship of Christ and rallies his flock round the altar of Mars, he may be acting patriotically... but that does not justify him in pretending...that Christ is, in effect, Mars.

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Nobody could stand an eternity of Heaven.

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When men die of disease they are said to die from natural causes. When they recover (and mostly they do) the doctor gets the credit of curing them.

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Journalists are too poorly paid in this country to know anything that is fit for publication.

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A book is like a child: it is easier to bring it into the world than to control it when it is launched there.

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Bible worship, though at its best it may achieve sublimity by keeping its head in the skies, may also make itself both ridiculousand dangerous by having its feet off the ground.

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Morality consists of suspecting other people of not being legally married.

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I'm sick of all the reasonable people: they see all the reasons for doing nothing

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If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.

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It is in the hour of trial that a man finds his true profession.

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When a man says money can do anything, that settles it: he hasn't got any.

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

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I can forgive Alfred Nobel for having invented dynamite, but only a fiend in human form could have invented the Nobel Prize.

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