George Bernard Shaw

(91 votes)   Here there is no hope, and consequently no duty, no work, nothing to be gained by praying, nothing to be lost by doing what you like. Hell, in short, is a place where you have nothing to do but amuse yourself.

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

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(91 votes)   Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.

George Bernard Shaw
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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(91 votes)   The art of government is the organization of idolatry. The bureaucracy consists of functionaries; the aristocracy, of idols; the democracy, of idolaters. The populace cannot understand the bureaucracy: it can only worship the national idols.

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

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(90 votes)   The worst sin towards our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them; that's the essence of inhumanity.

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

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(89 votes)   If you must hold yourself up to your children as an object lesson, hold yourself up as a warning and not an example.

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

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(89 votes)   Property is organized robbery.

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

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(89 votes)   Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn.

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

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(89 votes)   The only man I know who behaves sensibly is my tailor; he takes my measurements anew each time he sees me. The rest go on with their old measurements and expect me to fit them.

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

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(89 votes)   The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.

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

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(89 votes)   We want a few mad people now. See where the sane ones have landed us!

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

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(88 votes)   All progress is initiated by challenging current conceptions, and executed by supplanting existing institutions.

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

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(88 votes)   Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books nobody reads.

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

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(88 votes)   Common people do not pray; they only beg.

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

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(88 votes)   The great secret, Eliza, is not having bad manners or good manners or any other particular sort of manners, but having the same manner for all human souls: in short, behaving as if you were in Heaven, where there are no third-class carriages, and one soul is as good as another.

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

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