George Bernard Shaw Quotes, Civilization Quotes, Done Quotes

We must not stay as we are, doing always what was done last time, or we shall stick in the mud. Yet neither must we undertake a new world as catastrophic Utopians, and wreck our civilization in our hurry to mend it.

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When men die of disease they are said to die from natural causes. When they recover (and mostly they do) the doctor gets the credit of curing them.

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Like all young men, you greatly exaggerate the difference between one young woman and another.

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Jesus remains unshaken as the practical man; and we stand exposed as the fools, the blunderers, the unpractical visionaries.

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A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.

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The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.

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We veneer civilization by doing unkind things in a kind way.

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As an old soldier, I admit the cowardice: it's as universal as seasickness, and matters just as little.

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A part of eugenic politics would finally land us in an extensive use of the lethal chamber. A great many people would have to be put out of existence simply because it wastes other people's time to look after them.

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You are going to let the fear of poverty govern you life and your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live.

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Think what cowards men would be if they had to bear children. Women are altogether a superior species.

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The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

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Telling the truth is the funniest joke in the world.

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Take the utmost care to get well born and well brought up.

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This is the true joy of life-the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one, the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown to the scrap-heap; the being a force of nature instead of a feverish, selfish clod of ailments and grievances.

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Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.

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Social questions are too sectional, too topical, too temporal to move a man to the mighty effort which is needed to produce greatpoetry. Prison reform may nerve Charles Reade to produce an effective and businesslike prose melodrama; but it could never produce Hamlet, Faust, or Peer Gynt.

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Life's no brief candle-it's a splendid torch!

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A socialist is somebody who doesn't have anything, and is ready to divide it up equally among everybody.

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The schoolmaster is the person who takes the children off the parents' hands for a consideration. That is to say, he establishes a child prison, engages a number of employee schoolmasters as turnkeys, and covers up the essential cruelty and unnaturalness of the situation by torturing the children if they do not learn, and calling this process, which is within the capacity of any fool or blackguard, by the sacred name of Teaching.

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