George Bernard Shaw Quotes, Faith Quotes, Believe Quotes

What a man believes may be ascertained, not from his creed, but from the assumptions on which he habitually acts.

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

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It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.

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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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I showed my appreciation of my native land in the usual Irish way: by getting out of it as soon as I possibly could.

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Somemenare bornkings; and someare bornstatesmen. The two are seldom the same.

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If you say that God is good, great, blessed, wise or any such thing, the starting point is this : God is.

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It is in the hour of trial that a man finds his true profession.

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It is the first duty of every man not to be poor.

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A newspaper, not having to act on its descriptions and reports, but only to sell them to idly curious people, has nothing but honor to lose by inaccuracy and non-veracity.

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Even the youngest of us may be wrong sometimes.

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As well consult a butcher on the value of vegetarianism as a doctor on the worth of vaccination.

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If you cannot attain knowledge without torturing a dog, you must do without knowledge.

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My only policy is to profess evil and do good.

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The policy of letting things alone, in the practical sense that the Government should never interfere with business or go into business itself, is called Laisser-faire by economists and politicians. It has broken down so completely in practice that it is now discredited; but it was all the fashion in politics a hundred years ago, and is still influentially advocated by men of business and their backers who naturally would like to be allowed to make money as they please without regard to the interest of the public.

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Assasination on the scaffold is the worst form of assasination, because there it is invested with the approval of society.

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Imprisonment is as irrevocable as death.

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Reformers have the idea that change can be achieved by brute sanity.

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The fact is that the intrinsic worth of the book, play or whatever the author is trying to sell is the least, last factor in the the whole transaction.

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All Artists are Anarchists.

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