George Bernard Shaw Quotes, Religious Quotes, Art Quotes

My religious convictions and scientific views cannot at present be more specifically defined than as those of a believer in creative revolution. I desire that no public monument or work of art or inscription or sermon or ritual service commemorating me shall suggest that I accepted the tenets peculiar to any established church or denomination nor take the form of a cross or any other instrument of torture or symbol of blood sacrifice.

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Custom will reconcile people to any atrocity, and fashion will drive them to acquire any custom.

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I was always unlawful; I broke the law when I was born because my parents weren't married.

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

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The great advantage of a hotel is that it is a refuge from home life.

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Every child has a right to its own bent. . . . It has a right to find its own way and go its own way, whether that way seems wise or foolish to others, exactly as an adult has. It has a right to privacy as to its own doings and its own affairs as much as if it were its own father.

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We must all share in the evils of the world or move to another planet.

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He who confuses political liberty with freedom and political equality with similarity has never thought for five minutes about either.

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Hurrah for revolution and more cannon-shot! A beggar upon horseback lashes a beggar on foot. Hurrah for revolution and cannon come again! The beggars have changed places, but the lash goes on.

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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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Self-sacrifice enables us to sacrifice other people without blushing.

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I have never admitted the right of an elderly author to alter the work of a young author, even when the young author happens to be his former self.

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The plain working truth is that it is not only good for people to be shocked occasionally, but absolutely necessary to the progress of society that they should be shocked pretty often.

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

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All great Truth first starts as Blasphemy.

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The vilest abortionist is he who attempts to mould a child's character.

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God is on the side of the big battalions.

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The first condition of progress is the removal of censorship.

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Syllables govern the world.

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