George Bernard Shaw Quotes, Prayer Quotes, People Quotes

Most of the money given by rich people in "charity" is made up of conscience money, "ransom," political bribery, and bids for titles.... One buys moral credit by signing a cheque, which is easier than turning a prayer wheel.

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A soldier is an anachronism of which we must get rid.

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Our first duty, to which every other consideration should be sacrificed, is not to be poor.

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In a hospital they throw you out into the street before you are half cured, but in a nursing home they don't let you out till you are dead.

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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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What Englishman will give his mind to politics as long as he can afford to keep a motor car?

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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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Well, upon my soul! You are not ashamed to stand there and confess yourself a disgusting drunkard.

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We're human beings we are - all of us - and that's what people are liable to forget. Human beings don't like peace and goodwill and everybody loving everybody else. However much they may think they do, they don't really because they're not made like that. Human beings love eating and drinking and loving and hating. They also like showing off, grabbing all they can, fighting for their rights and bossing anybody who'll give them half a chance.

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What's the use of money if you have to earn it.

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It is a woman's business to get married as soon as possible, and a man's to keep unmarried as long as he can.

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This souls'prison we call England.

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Seemingly unreasonable people attempt to adapt the world to themselves. Much progress, therefore, depends on such people.

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Obedience simulates subordination as fear of the police simulates honesty.

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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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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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It is the first duty of every man not to be poor.

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Live in contact with dreams and you will get something of their charm: live in contact with facts and you will get something of their brutality. I wish I could find a country to live in where the facts were not brutal and the dreams not real.

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I learned more from the first stupid woman who fell in love with me than ever my brains taught me.

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Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.

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