George Bernard Shaw Quotes, Warning Quotes, Figures Quotes

I must ... warn my readers that my attacks are directed against themselves, not against my stage figures.

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Tradition will accustom people to any atrocity

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You are all alike, you respectable people. You can't tell me the bursting strain of a ten-inch gun, which is a very simple matter;but you all think you can tell me the bursting strain of a man under temptation. You daren't handle high explosives; but you're all ready to handle honesty and truth and justice and the whole duty of man, and kill one another at that game. What a country! What a world!

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Principles without programs are platitudes.

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With the exception of capitalism, there is nothing so revolting as revolution.

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Life would be tolerable but for its amusements.

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I have to live for others and not for myself: that's middle-class morality.

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It is the mark of a truly intelligent person to be moved by statistics.

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The sex illusion is not a fixed quantity: not what mathematicians call a constant. It varies from zero in my wife's case to madness in that of our stepsister.

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What is both surprising and delightful is that the spectators are allowed, and even expected, to join in the vocal part of the game...There is no reason why the field should not try to put the batsman off his stroke at the critical moment by neatly timed disparagements of his wife's fidelity and his mother's respectability.

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Of the three official objects of our prison system: vengeance, deterrence, and reformation of the criminal, only one is achieved; and that is the one which is nakedly abominable.

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You sometimes have to answer a woman according to her womanliness, just as you have to answer a fool according to his folly.

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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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Idiots are always in favour of inequality of income (their only chance of eminence), and the really great in favour of equality.

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If you leave your art, the world will beat you back to it. The world has not an ambition worth sharing, or a prize worth handling.

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Every step of progress means a duty repudiated, and a scripture torn up.

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I assume that to prevent illness in later life, you should never have been born at all.

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The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.

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People get tired of everything, and of nothing sooner than of what they most like.

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The open mind never acts: when we have done our utmost to arrive at a reasonable conclusion, we still must close our minds for the moment with a snap, and act dogmatically on our conclusions.

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