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161 Quotes for 'George Bernard Shaw' in the Database.

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It is the deed that teaches, not the name we give it. Murder and capital punishment are not opposites that cancel one another, but similars that breed their kind.
Topic: Opposites
Source: None
What the world calls originality is only an unaccustomed method of tickling it.
Topic: Originality
Source: None
A healthy nation is as unconscious of its nationality as a healthy man of his bones. But if you break a nation's nationality it will think of nothing else but getting it set again.
Topic: Patriotism
Source: John Bull's Other Island (preface)
You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
Topic: Patriotism
Source: O'Flaherty, V.C.
Patriotism is a pernicious, psychopathic form of idiocy.
Topic: Patriotism
Source: None
You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
Topic: Patriotism
Source: None
We Are The Living Graves Of Murdered Beasts We are the living graves of murdered beasts Slaughtered to satisfy our appetites We never pause to wonder at our feasts If animals, like men, can possibly have rights We pray on Sundays that we may have light To guide our footsteps on the path we tread We're sick of war We do not want to fight The thought of it now fills our hearts with dread And yet we gorge ourselves upon the dead Like carrion crows we live and feed on meat Regardless of the suffering and pain We cause by doing so. If thus we treat Defenseless animals for sport or gain How can we hope in this world to attain the PEACE we say we are so anxious for We pray for it o'er hecatombs of slain To God, while outraging the moral law Thus cruelty begets its offspring: war.
Topic: Peace
Source: None
Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world. -George Bernard Shaw.
Topic: Perception
Source: None
A pessimist is a man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself.
Topic: Pessimism
Source: None
The philosopher is Nature's pilot. And there you have our difference: to be in hell is to drift: to be in heaven is to steer.
Topic: Philosophy
Source: Man and Superman (act III)
A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.
Topic: Politics / Government
Source: None
The world is populated in the main by people who should not exist.
Topic: Population
Source: None
Power does not corrupt man; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.
Topic: Power
Source: None
The test of a man or woman's breeding is how they behave in a quarrel.
Topic: Quarrels
Source: None
No question is so difficult to answer as that to which the answer is obvious.
Topic: Question
Source: None
No question is so difficult to answer as that which the answer is obvious.
Topic: Questions
Source: None
I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation. •George Bernard Shaw It is better to be quotable than to be honest. •Tom Stoppard Now we sit through Shakespeare in order to recognize the quotations. •Orson Welles Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
Topic: Quotes
Source: None
I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.
Topic: Quotes
Source: None
No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means.
Topic: Religion / Beliefs
Source: None
A doctor's reputation is made by the number of eminent men who die under his care.
Topic: Reputation
Source: None
Hatred is the coward's revenge for being intimidated.
Topic: Revenge
Source: None
Revolutionary moments attract those who are not good enough for established institutions as well as those who are too good for them.
Topic: Revolution
Source: Androcles and the Lion
Revolutions have never lightened the burden of tyranny: they have only shifted it to another shoulder.
Topic: Revolution
Source: Man and Superman--"The Revolutionist's Handbook"
Revolutions have never lightened the burden of tyranny: they have only shifted it to another shoulder.
Topic: Revolution
Source: None
Revolutionary movements attract those who are not good enough for established institutions as well as those who are too good for them.
Topic: Revolution
Source: None
Self-sacrifice enables us to sacrifice other people without blushing.
Topic: Sacrifice
Source: None
Wot prawce Selvytion nah?
Topic: Salvation
Source: Major Barbara
Must then a Christ perish in torment in every age to save those that have no imagination?
Topic: Salvation
Source: Saint Joan
I tell you that as long as I can conceive something better than myself I cannot be easy unless I am striving to bring it in to existence or clearing the way for it.
Topic: Self-improvement
Source: None
Self-sacrifice enables us to sacrifice other people without blushing.
Topic: Self-sacrifice
Source: None
We live in an atmosphere of shame. We are ashamed of everything that is real about us; ashamed of ourselves, of our relatives, of our incomes, of our accents, of our opinion, of our experience, just as we are ashamed of our naked skins.
Topic: Shame
Source: Man and Superman (act I)
The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.
Topic: Shame
Source: None
Every drunken skipper trusts to Providence. But one of the ways of Providence with drunken skippers is to run them on the rocks.
Topic: Shipwreck
Source: Heartbreak House (at III)
I enjoy convalescence. It is the part that makes the illness worth while.
Topic: Sickness
Source: Back to Methuselah
Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty; what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness.
Topic: Society
Source: None
What is both surprising and delightful is that spectators are allowed, and even expected, to join in the vocal part of the game... There is no reason why the field should not try to put the batsman off his stroke at the critical moment by neatly timed disparagements of his wife's fidelity and his mother's respectability.
Topic: Sports
Source: None
Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended.
Topic: Sports
Source: None
The statesman cannot govern without stability of belief, true or false.
Topic: Statesmanship
Source: Everybody's Political What's What
When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.
Topic: Stupidity
Source: Caesar and Cleopatra
I dread success. To have succeeded is to have finished one's business on earth, like the male spider, who is killed by the female the moment he has succeeded in his courtship. I like a state of continual becoming, with a goal in front and not behind.
Topic: Success
Source: None
Taste: a quality possessed by persons without originality or moral courage.
Topic: Taste
Source: None
He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches.
Topic: Teaching
Source: None
What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.
Topic: Teaching
Source: None
Virtue is insufficient temptation.
Topic: Temptations
Source: None
The open mind never acts: when we have done our utmost to arrive at a reasonable conclusion, we still. . . must close our minds for the moment with a snap, and act dogmatically on our conclusions.
Topic: Thinking
Source: Androcles and the Lion
A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will.
Topic: Thinking
Source: Androcles and the Lion
A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.
Topic: Thinking
Source: Androcles and the Lion
Titles distinguish the mediocre, embarrass the superior, and are disgraced by the inferior.
Topic: Titles
Source: Man and Superman
There are two tragedies in life: one is to lose your heart's desire, the other is to gain it.
Topic: Tragedy
Source: None
I dislike feeling at home when I am abroad.
Topic: Travel
Source: None

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