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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
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What the world calls originality is only an unaccustomed method of tickling it.
Topic: Originality
Source: None
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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)
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You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out
of the human race.
Topic: Patriotism
Source: O'Flaherty, V.C.
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Patriotism is a pernicious, psychopathic form of idiocy.
Topic: Patriotism
Source: None
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You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
Topic: Patriotism
Source: None
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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
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Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world. -George Bernard Shaw.
Topic: Perception
Source: None
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A pessimist is a man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself.
Topic: Pessimism
Source: None
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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)
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A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.
Topic: Politics / Government
Source: None
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The world is populated in the main by people who should not exist.
Topic: Population
Source: None
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Power does not corrupt man; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.
Topic: Power
Source: None
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The test of a man or woman's breeding is how they behave in a quarrel.
Topic: Quarrels
Source: None
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No question is so difficult to answer as that to which the answer is obvious.
Topic: Question
Source: None
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No question is so difficult to answer as that which the answer is obvious.
Topic: Questions
Source: None
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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
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I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.
Topic: Quotes
Source: None
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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
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A doctor's reputation is made by the number of eminent men who die under his care.
Topic: Reputation
Source: None
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Hatred is the coward's revenge for being intimidated.
Topic: Revenge
Source: None
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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
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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"
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Revolutions have never lightened the burden of tyranny: they have only shifted it to another shoulder.
Topic: Revolution
Source: None
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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
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Self-sacrifice enables us to sacrifice other people without blushing.
Topic: Sacrifice
Source: None
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Wot prawce Selvytion nah?
Topic: Salvation
Source: Major Barbara
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Must then a Christ perish in torment in every age to save those
that have no imagination?
Topic: Salvation
Source: Saint Joan
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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
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Self-sacrifice enables us to sacrifice other people without blushing.
Topic: Self-sacrifice
Source: None
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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)
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The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.
Topic: Shame
Source: None
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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)
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I enjoy convalescence. It is the part that makes the illness
worth while.
Topic: Sickness
Source: Back to Methuselah
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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
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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
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Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended.
Topic: Sports
Source: None
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The statesman cannot govern without stability of belief, true or
false.
Topic: Statesmanship
Source: Everybody's Political What's What
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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
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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
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Taste: a quality possessed by persons without originality or moral courage.
Topic: Taste
Source: None
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He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches.
Topic: Teaching
Source: None
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What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.
Topic: Teaching
Source: None
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Virtue is insufficient temptation.
Topic: Temptations
Source: None
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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
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A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he
will.
Topic: Thinking
Source: Androcles and the Lion
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A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.
Topic: Thinking
Source: Androcles and the Lion
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Titles distinguish the mediocre, embarrass the superior, and are
disgraced by the inferior.
Topic: Titles
Source: Man and Superman
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There are two tragedies in life: one is to lose your heart's desire, the other is to gain it.
Topic: Tragedy
Source: None
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I dislike feeling at home when I am abroad.
Topic: Travel
Source: None
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