George Bernard Shaw Quotes, Country Quotes, Cities Quotes

Such poverty as we have today in all our great cities degrades the poor, and infects with its degradation the whole neighborhood in which they live. And whatever can degrade a neighborhood can degrade a country and a continent and finally the whole civilized world, which is only a large neighborhood.

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I'm one of the undeserving poor: that's what I am. Think of what that means to a man. It means that he's up agen middle class morality all the time.... What is middle class morality? Just an excuse for never giving me anything.

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Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it.

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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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All great truths begin as blasphemies.

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A broken heart is a very pleasant complaint for a man in London if he has a comfortable income.

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I have studied him - the wonderful man - and in my opinion far from being an anti-Christ he must be called the saviour of humanity.

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Never waste jealousy on a real man: it is the imaginary man that supplants us all in the long run.

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The buried truth germinates and breaks through to the light.

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Never fret for an only son, the idea of failure will never occur to him.

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No doubt it is easy to demostrate that property will destroy society unless society destroys it.

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Golf is typical capitalist luncay.

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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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In literature the ambition of the novice is to acquire the literary language; the struggle of the adept is to get rid of it.

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Hatred is the coward's revenge for being intimidated.

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There was only one virtue, pugnacity; only one vice, pacifism. That is an essential condition of war.

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I never expect a soldier to think.

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No sooner had Jesus knocked over the dragon of superstition than Paul boldly set it on its legs again in the name of Jesus.

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Very nice sort of place, Oxford, I should think, for people that like that sort of place.

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I choose not to make a graveyard of my body for the rotting corpses of dead animals.

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