George Bernard Shaw Quotes, Class Quotes, Society Quotes

We mustn't be stiff and stand-off, you know. We must be thoroughly democratic, and patronize everybody without distinction of class.

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Keep away from books and from men who get their ideas from books, and your own books will always be fresh.

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It is nearly 50 years since I was assured by a conclave of doctors that if I did not eat meat I should die of starvation.

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We are all victims of the violence that animals suffer... their liberation is also our liberation.

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Murder and capital punishment are not opposites that cancel one another, but similars that breed their kind. It is the deed that teaches not the name we give it.

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I am a sort of collector of religions: and the curious thing is that I find I can believe in them all.

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It is long and hard and painful to create life: it is short and easy to steal the life others have made.

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If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.

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We cut the throat of a calf and hang it up by the heels to bleed to death so that our veal cutlet may be white; we nail geese to a board and cram them with food because we like the taste of liver disease; we tear birds to pieces to decorate our women's hats; we mutilate domestic animals for no reason at all except to follow an instinctively cruel fashion; and we connive at the most abominable tortures in the hope of discovering some magical cure for our own diseases by them.

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God made the world as an artist and that is why the world must learn from its artists.

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When God created man and woman, he did not take a patent. That's why any imbecile has been able to do so ever since.

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If you demand my authorities for this and that, I must reply that only those who have never hunted up the authorities as I have believe that there is any authority who is not contradicted flatly by some other authority.

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Reminiscences make one feel so deliciously aged and sad.

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Bible worship, though at its best it may achieve sublimity by keeping its head in the skies, may also make itself both ridiculousand dangerous by having its feet off the ground.

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Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.

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The most sublime courage I have ever witnessed has been among that class too poor to know they possessed it, and too humble for the world to discover it.

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Don't wait for the right opportunity: create it.

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A man ought to be able to be fond of his wife without making a fool of himself about her.

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The most sincere form of love is love for food

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What is life but a series of inspired follies? The difficulty is to find them to do. Never lose a chance: it doesn’t come every day.

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