George Bernard Shaw Quotes, War Quotes, Army Quotes

Our way of getting an army able to fight the German army is to declare war on Germany just as if we had such an army, and then trust to the appalling resultant peril and disaster to drive us into wholesale enlistment.

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You have a choice of trusting the natural stability of gold, or the honesty and intelligence of members of government.

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I believe in Michelangelo, Velasquez, and Rembrandt; in the might of design, the mystery of color, the redemption of all things by Beauty everlasting, and the message of Art that has made these hands blessed. Amen. Amen.

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A soldier is an anachronism of which we must get rid.

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In a battle all you need to make you fight is a little hot blood and the knowledge that it's more dangerous to lose than to win.

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The ordinary man is an anarchist. He wants to do as he likes. He may want his neighbour to be governed, but he himself doesn't want to be governed. He is mortally afraid of government officials and policemen.

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The word morality, if we met it in the Bible, would surprise us as much as the word telephone or motor car.

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Marriage is the most licentious of human institutions.

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The play was a great success, but audience was a dismal failure.

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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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Unless the law of marriage were first made human, it could never become divine.

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Everyone can see that the people who hunt are the right people and the people who don't are the wrong ones.

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We know there is intention and purpose in the universe, because there is intention and purpose in us.

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Ye poor posterity, think not that ye are the first. Other fools before ye have seen the sun rise and set, and the moon change her shape and her hour. As they were so ye are; and yet not so great; for the pyramids my people built stand to this day; whilst the dustheaps on which ye slave, and which ye call empires, scatter in the wind even as ye pile your dead sons' bodies on them to make yet more dust.

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A fool-proof method for sculpting an elephant: first, get a huge block of marble; then you chip away everything that doesn't look like an elephant.

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I am a Christian. That obliges me to be a Communist.

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Man is the only animal of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid...There is no harm in a well-fed lion. It has no ideals, no sect, no party.

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Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.

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I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people.

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I sing, not arms and the hero, but the philosophic man: he who seeks in contemplation to discover the inner will of the world, ininvention to discover the means of fulfilling that will, and in action to do that will by the so-discovered means.

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