George Bernard Shaw
Irish-English writer and critic
Lived from: 1856 - 1950
Category: Media | Writers (Contemporary) Country: 
United Kingdom
Born: 26 july 1856 Died: 2 november 1950
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Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous
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People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances.
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People expect too much of one year and too little of ten.
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People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it.
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Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family.
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Physically there is nothing to distinguish human society from the farm-yard except that children are more troublesome and costly than chickens and calves and that men and women are not so completely enslaved as farm stock.
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Political necessities sometimes turn out to be political mistakes.
Saint Joan (1923)― George Bernard Shaw -
Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.
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Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
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Property is organized robbery.
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Put an Irishman on the spit and you can always get another Irishman to turn him.
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Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman, but believing what he read made him mad.
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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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Religion is a good invention in times of stress.
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Reminiscences make one feel so deliciously aged and sad.
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Revelations: A curious record of the visions of a drug addict.
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Revolutions have never lightened the burden of tyranny: they have only shifted it to another shoulder.
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Science becomes dangerous only when it imagines that it has reached its goal.
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Science is always simple and always profound. It is only the half-truths that are dangerous.
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Science is always wrong, it never solves a problem without creating ten more.
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