George Bernard Shaw Quotes, Fear Quotes, Patriotic Quotes

Patriotism is a pernicious, psychopathic form of idiocy.

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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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Revelations: A curious record of the visions of a drug addict.

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Unless the people can choose their leaders and rulers, and can revoke their choice at intervals long enough to test their measuresby results, the government will be a tyranny exercised in the interests of whatever classes or castes or mobs or cliques have this choice.

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If you lived in London, where the whole system is one of false good-fellowship, and you may know a man for twenty years without finding out that he hates you like poison, you would soon have your eyes opened. There we do unkind things in a kind way: we say bitter things in a sweet voice: we always give our friends chloroform when we tear them to pieces.

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

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Imprisonment is as irrevocable as death.

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Nothing is more dreadful than a husband who keeps telling you everything he thinks, and always wants to know what you think.

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I occasionally swank a little because people like it; a modest man is such a nuisance.

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It is one of the mysterious ways of Allah to make women troublesome when he makes them beautiful.

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In truth , mankind cannot be saved from without, by schoolmasters or any other sort of masters: it can only be lamed and enslaved by them. It is said that if you wash a cat it will never again wash itself. This may or may not be true : what is certain is that if you teach a man anything he will never learn it; and if you cure him of a disease he will be unable to cure himself the next time it attacks him.

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My reputation grows with every failure.

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Even a vortex is a vortex in something. You can't have a whirlpool without water; and you can't have a vortex without gas, or molecules or atoms or ions or electrons or something, not nothing.

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If you would stick to the concrete, and put your discoveries in the form of entertaining anecdotes about your adventures with women, your conversation would be easier to follow.

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Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men's imperfections, and conceal your own.

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Self-denial is not a virtue; it is only the effect of prudence on rascality.

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Money is the counter that enables life to be lived socially; it is life as truly as sovereigns and banknotes are money.

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Put an Irishman on the spit and you can always get another Irishman to turn him.

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The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.

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Well, upon my soul! You are not ashamed to stand there and confess yourself a disgusting drunkard.

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