George Bernard Shaw Quotes, Art Quotes, Government Quotes

The art of government is the organization of idolatry. The bureaucracy consists of functionaries; the aristocracy, of idols; the democracy, of idolaters. The populace cannot understand the bureaucracy: it can only worship the national idols.

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Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.

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A family is a tyranny ruled over by it's weakest member.

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If you say that God is good, great, blessed, wise or any such thing, the starting point is this : God is.

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Dying is a troublesome business: there is pain to be suffered, and it wrings one's heart; but death is a splendid thing -a warfare accomplished, a beginning all over again, a triumph. You can always see that in their faces.

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My reputation grows with every failure.

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The American Constitution, one of the few modern political documents drawn up by men who were forced by the sternest circumstances to think out what they really had to face, instead of chopping logic in a university classroom.

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I become more convinced that beings from other planets are using the Earth as a lunatic asylum

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The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.

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Why should we take advice on sex from the pope? If he knows anything about it, he shouldn't!

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If you teach a man anything, he will never learn.

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Love is a simple thing and a deep thing: it is an act of life and not an illusion. Art is an illusion.

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The practical question, then, is what to do with the children. Tolerate them at home we will not. Let them run loose in the streets we dare not until our streets become safe places for children, which, to our utter shame, they are not at present, though they can hardly be worse than some homes and some schools.

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Some people look at the world and say 'why?' Some people look at the world and say 'why not?'

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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 conversion of a savage to Christianity is the conversion of Christianity to savagery.

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

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The play was a great success, but audience was a dismal failure.

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Even a vortex is a vortex in something. You can't have a whirlpool without water; and you can't have a vortex without gas, or molecules or atoms or ions or electrons or something, not nothing.

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Well, sir, you never can tell. That's a principle in life with me, sir, if you'll excuse my having such a thing.

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