George Bernard Shaw Quotes, Plato Quotes, Responsibility Quotes

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 whole strength of England lies in the fact that the enormous majority of the English people are snobs.

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While we ourselves are the living graves of murdered animals, how can we expect any ideal living conditions on this earth?

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The technical history of modern harmony is a history of growth of toleration by the human ear of chords that at first sounded discordant and senseless to the main body of contemporary professional musicians.

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What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.

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The righteous man takes his life in his hand whenever he utters the truth.

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Give me the artist who breathes it like a native, and goes about his work in it as quietly as a common man goes about his ordinary business. Mozart did so; and that is why I like him. Even if I did not, I should pretend to; for a taste in his music is a mark of caste among musicians, and should be worn, like a tall hat, by the amateur who wishes to pass for a true Brahmin.

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The shot Irishmen will now take their places beside Emmet and the Manchester Martyrs in Ireland, and beside the heroes of Poland and Sérbia and Belgium in Europe; and nothing in heaven or earth can prevent it.

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Stimulate the phagocytes.

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Political necessities sometime turn out to be political mistakes.

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Dancing is a very crude attempt to get into the rhythm of life.

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Newspaper : A device unable to distinguish between a bicycle accident and the collapse of civilisation.

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Schools must not become the agencies through which propaganda advocated by any section of society is spread. The method of control always a crucial problem should be in harmony with the fundamental values and principles of the states and the entire e

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The trouble with the media is that it seems unable to distinguish between the end of the world and a bicycle accident.

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A nap, my friend, is a brief period of sleep which overtakes superannuated persons when they endeavor to entertain unwelcome visitors or to listen to scientific lectures.

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A gentleman is one who puts more into the world than he takes out.

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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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There is only one universal passion fear.

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Remember that you are a human being with a soul and the divine gift of articulate speech: that your native language is the language of Shakespeare and Milton and The Bible; and don't sit there crooning like a bilious pigeon.

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I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community and as long as I live, it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can.

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