George Bernard Shaw

(239 votes)   Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.

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

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(235 votes)   It is easy -- terribly easy -- to shake a man's faith in himself. To take advantage of that to break a man's spirit is devil's work.

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

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(234 votes)   You don't learn to hold your own in the world by standing on guard, but by attacking and getting well hammered yourself.

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

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(223 votes)   We sing in a church, why can we not dance there?

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

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(220 votes)   Man is the only animal which esteems itself rich in proportion to the number and voracity of its parasites.

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

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(219 votes)   As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death.

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

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(216 votes)   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 opinions, of our experience, just as we are ashamed of our naked skins.

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1856-1950, Irish-born British Dramatist

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(209 votes)   Hatred is the coward's revenge for being intimidated.

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

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(208 votes)   Don't order any black things. Rejoice in his memory; and be radiant: leave grief to the children. Wear violet and purple. Be patient with the poor people who will snivel: they don't know; and they think they will live for ever, which makes death a division instead of a bond.

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

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

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

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(207 votes)   The best place to seek God is in a garden. You can dig for him there.

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1856-1950, Irish-born British Dramatist

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(207 votes)   The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else.

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1856-1950, Irish-born British Dramatist

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(205 votes)   Kings are not born: they are made by artificial hallucination.

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1856-1950, Irish-born British Dramatist

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(192 votes)   Hell is paved with good intentions, not with bad ones. All men mean well.

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1856-1950, Irish-born British Dramatist

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(191 votes)   Leisure may be defined as free activity, labor as compulsory activity. Leisure does what it likes, labor does what it must, the compulsion being that of Nature, which in these latitudes leaves men no choice between labor and starvation.

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

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