George Bernard Shaw

(99 votes)   You are all fundamentalists with a top dressing of science. That is why you are the stupidest of conservatives and reactionists in politics and the most bigoted of obstructionists in science itself. When it comes to getting a move on you are all of the same opinion: stop it, flog it, hang it, dynamite it, stamp it out.

George Bernard Shaw
1856-1950, Irish-born British Dramatist

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(98 votes)   Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.

George Bernard Shaw
1856-1950, Irish-born British Dramatist

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(97 votes)   A perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire.

George Bernard Shaw
1856-1950, Irish-born British Dramatist

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(97 votes)   You cannot be a hero without being a coward.

George Bernard Shaw
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(96 votes)   How can what an Englishman believes be hearsay? It is a contradiction in terms.

George Bernard Shaw
1856-1950, Irish-born British Dramatist

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(96 votes)   If all the economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.

George Bernard Shaw
1856-1950, Irish-born British Dramatist

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(95 votes)   An asylum for the sane would be empty in America.

George Bernard Shaw
1856-1950, Irish-born British Dramatist

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(95 votes)   An election is a moral horror, as bad as a battle except for the blood; a mud bath for every soul concerned in it.

George Bernard Shaw
1856-1950, Irish-born British Dramatist

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(95 votes)   Ladies and gentleman are permitted to have friends in the kennel, but not in the kitchen.

George Bernard Shaw
1856-1950, Irish-born British Dramatist

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(95 votes)   Revolutions have never lightened the burden of tyranny: they have only shifted it to another shoulder.

George Bernard Shaw
1856-1950, Irish-born British Dramatist

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(95 votes)   We must always think about things, and we must think about things as they are, not as they are said to be.

George Bernard Shaw
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(94 votes)   I showed my appreciation of my native land in the usual Irish way: by getting out of it as soon as I possibly could.

George Bernard Shaw
1856-1950, Irish-born British Dramatist

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(94 votes)   My method is to take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say, and then to say it with the utmost levity.

George Bernard Shaw
1856-1950, Irish-born British Dramatist

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(94 votes)   No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense an idiot.

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1856-1950, Irish-born British Dramatist

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(91 votes)   That is the whole secret of successful fighting. Get your enemy at a disadvantage; and never, on any account, fight him on equal terms.

George Bernard Shaw
1856-1950, Irish-born British Dramatist

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