George Bernard Shaw Quotes, Order Quotes, Law Quotes

Our laws make law impossible; our liberties destroy all freedom; our property is organized robbery; our morality an impudent hypocrisy; our wisdom is administered by inexperienced or mal-experienced dupes; our power wielded by cowards and weaklings; and our honour false in all its points. I am an enemy of the existing order for good reasons

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What we call education and culture is for the most part nothing but the substitution of reading for experience, of literature for life, of the obsolete fictitious for the contemporary real.

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The thief who is in prison is not necessarily more dishonest than his fellows at large, but mostly one who, through ignorance or stupidity [or racism or poverty! - Draffan] steals in a way that is not customary. He snatches a loaf from the baker's counter and is promptly run into gaol. Another man snatches bread from the table of hundreds of widows and orphans and similar credulous souls who do not know the ways of company promoters; and, as likely as not, he is run into Parliament.

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Martyrdom is the only path to immortality that requires no talent whatsoever.

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We throw the whole drudgery of creation on one sex, and then imply that no female of any delicacy would initiate any effort in that direction.

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Whenever I see the word Operation, especially Trifling Operation, I at once write off the patient as dead.

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I do not, like the Fundamentalists, believe that creation stopped six thousand years ago after a week of hard work. Creation is going on all the time.

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Give a man health and a course to steer, and he'll never stop to trouble about whether he's happy or not.

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Nothing is ever accomplished by a reasonable man.

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The universal regard for money is the one hopeful fact in our civilization.

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A revolutionist is one who desires to discard the existing social order and try another.

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Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody can read.

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Music is the brandy of the damned.

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There are scores of thousands of human insects who are ready at a moment's notice to reveal the Will of God on every possible subject

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Grain by grain, a loaf. Stone upon stone, a palace.

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The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.

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People get nothing out of books but what they bring to them.

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Our lives are shaped not as much by our experiences as by our expectations.

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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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You cannot learn to skate without making yourself ridiculous - the ice of life is slippery.

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