Quotes by George Bernard Shaw

George Bernard Shaw

George Bernard Shaw

Irish-English writer and critic

Lived from: 1856 - 1950

Category: Media | Writers (Contemporary) Country: FlagUnited Kingdom

Born: 26 july 1856 Died: 2 november 1950

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  • To me the sole hope of human salvation lies in teaching.
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  • Trade unionism is not socialism. It is the capitalism of the proletariat.
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  • Treat a friend as a person who may someday become your enemy; an enemy as a person who may someday become your friend.
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  • Very few people can afford to be poor.
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  • Violence is the repartee of the illiterate.
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  • Virtue consists not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it.
    Maxims for Revolutionists
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  • Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it.
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  • Virtue is insufficient temptation.
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  • Vivisection is a social evil because if it advances human knowledge, it does so at the expense of human character.
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  • Vulgarity in a king flatters the majority of the nation.
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  • We all go about longing for love: it is the first need of our natures, the loudest cry of our hearts.
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  • We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.
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  • We are all victims of the violence that animals suffer... their liberation is also our liberation.
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  • We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.
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  • We are the living graves of murdered beasts, slaughtered to satisfy our appetites. How can we hope in this world to attain the peace we say we are so anxious for?
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  • We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.
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  • We educate one another; and we cannot do this if half of us consider the other half not good enough to talk to.
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  • We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.
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  • We have not lost faith, but we have transferred it from God to the medical profession.
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  • We know now that the soul is the body, and the body the soul. They tell us they are different because they want to persuade us that we can keep our souls if we let them make slaves of our bodies.
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