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161 Quotes for 'George Bernard Shaw' in the Database.
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George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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People exaggerate the value of things they haven't got: everybody worships truth and unselfishness because they have no experience with them.
Topic: Value
Source: None
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Better keep yourself clean and bright. You are the window through which you must see the world.
Topic: Virtue
Source: None
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Virtue is insufficient temptation.
Topic: Virtue
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Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it.
Topic: Virtue
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You see things and you say "Why?"; but I dream things that never were and I say "Why not?".
Topic: Vision
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Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.
Topic: Vote
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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.
Topic: Work
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.
Topic: Work
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.
Topic: Work
Source: Unsocial Socialist (ch. V)
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You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out
of the human race.
Topic: World Peace
Source: O'Flaherty, V.C.
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Even the youngest of us may be wrong sometimes.
Topic: Youth
Source: None
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