| 227 Famous Quotes by George Bernard Shaw
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“Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.”
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“Patriotism is a pernicious, psychopathic form of idiocy”
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“Reasonable people adapt themselves to the world. Unreasonable people attempt to adapt the world to themselves. All progress, therefore, depends on unreasonable people.”
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“People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they can't find them, make them”
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“The possibilities are numerous once we decide to act and not react.”
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“You see things; and you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say, 'Why not?'”
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“Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.”
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“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.”
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“The best reformers the world has ever seen are those who commence on themselves”
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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”
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“My reputation grows with every failure.”
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“The golden rule is that there are no golden rules.”
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“The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them; that's the essence of inhumanity”
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“The secret of forgiving everything is to understand nothing”
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“Youth is wasted on the young.”
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“Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.”
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“The statesman cannot govern without stability of belief, true or
false.”
Statesmanship Quotes Source: Everybody's Political What's What
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“Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for
appointment by the corrupt few.”
Democracy Quotes Source: Man and Superman
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“Alcohol is a very necessary article . . . . It enables
Parliament to do things at eleven at night that no sane person
would do at eleven in the morning.”
Liquor Quotes Source: Major Barbara
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“Gin was mother's milk to her.”
Liquor Quotes Source: Pygmalion
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“Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.”
Murder Quotes Source: The Showing-Up of Blanco Posnet
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“A man who has no office to go to--I don't care who he is--is a
trial of which you can have no conception.”
Work Quotes Source: The Irrational Knot (ch. XVIII)
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“I am giving you examples of the fact that this creature man, who
in his own selfish affairs is a coward to the backbone, will
fight for an idea like a hero. . . . I tell you, gentlemen, if
you can shew a man a piece of what he now calls God's work to do,
and what he will later call by many new names, you can make him
entirely reckless of the consequences to himself personally.”
Work Quotes Source: Man and Superman (act III)
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“A day's work is a day's work, neither more nor less, and the man
who does it needs a day's sustenance, a night's repose, and due
leisure, whether he be a painter or ploughman.”
Work Quotes Source: Unsocial Socialist (ch. V)
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“All professions are conspiracies against the laity.”
Occupations Quotes Source: The Doctor's Dilemma
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George Bernard Shaw Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings
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