George Bernard Shaw Quotes, People Quotes, Society Quotes

Nobody can live in society without conventions. The reason why sensible people are as conventional as they can bear to be is that conventionality saves so much time and thought and trouble and social friction of one sort or another that it leaves them much more leisure time for freedom than unconventionality does.

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What is self-control? It is nothing but a highly developed vital sense, dominating and regulating the mere appetites. To overlook the very existence of this supreme sense; to miss the obvious inference that it is the quality that distinguishes the fittest to survive.

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We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.

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Crime is only the retail department of what, in wholesale, we call penal law.

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A doctor's reputation is made by the number of eminent men who die under his care.

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Oh, the frontier of hell and heaven is only the difference between two ways of looking at things.

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Life is a constant becoming: all stages lead to the beginning of others.

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My rank is the highest known in Switzerland: I'm a free citizen.

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War can so easily be gilt with romance and heroism and solemn national duty and patriotism and the like by persons whose superficial literary and oratorical talent covers an abyss of Godforsaken folly.

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Kings are not born: they are made by artificial hallucination.

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The English are not a very spiritual people, so they invented cricket to give them some idea of eternity.

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Hell is a place where you have nothing to do but amuse yourself.

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In this world there is always danger for those who are afraid of it.

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We should have had socialism already, but for the socialists, am quite willing to drop the name if dropping it will help me to get the thing.

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

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The man with a toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty-stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man.

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It is well to be off with the old woman before you're on with the new.

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A true artist will let his wife starve, his children go barefoot, his mother drudge for his living at seventy, sooner than work at anything but his art.

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Gentle Jesus, meek and mild' is a snivelling modern invention, with no warrant in the gospels.

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As long as you don't fly openly in the face of society, society doesn't ask any inconvenient questions; and it makes precious short work of the cads who do. There are no secrets better kept than the secrets everybody guesses.

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