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Morality consists of suspecting other people of not being legally married.
George Bernard Shaw
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George Bernard Shaw
Age: 94 †
Born: 1856
Born: July 26
Died: 1950
Died: November 2
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A revolutionist is one who desires to discard the existing social order and try another.
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Morality is not respectability.
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Audacious ribald: your laughter will finish in hideous boredom before morning.
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Liquor is the chloroform which enables the poor man to endure the painful operation of living.
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There is nothing so bad or so good that you will not find Englishmen doing it but you will never find an Englishman in the wrong. He does everything on principle.
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All great art and literature is propaganda.
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In the arts of life main invents nothing but in the arts of death he outdoes Nature herself, and produces by chemistry and machinery all the slaughter of plague, pestilence and famine. ... There is nothing in Man's industrial machinery but his greed and sloth: his heart is in his weapons.
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All the sweetness of religion is conveyed to the world by the hands of storytellers and image-makers. Without their fictions the truths of religion would for the multitude be neither intelligible nor even apprehensible and the prophets would prophesy and the teachers teach in vain.
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It's a pity youth is wasted on the young.
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Forgive him, for he believes that the customs of his tribe are the laws of nature!
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Besides, do any of us understand what we are doing? If we did, would we ever do it?
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To me the sole hope of human salvation lies in teaching.
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You have nothing to do but mention the quantum theory, and people will take your voice for the voice of science, and belive anything.
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It is necessary for the welfare of society that genius should be privileged to utter sedition, to blaspheme, to outrage good taste, to corrupt the youthful mind, and generally to scandalize one's uncles.
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Why should we take advice on sex from the pope? If he knows anything about it, he shouldn't!
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A modern gentleman [rich person] is necessarily the enemy of his country. Even in war he does not fight to defend it, but to prevent his power of preying on it from passing to a foreigner.
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After studying the Hungarian language for years, I can confidently conclude that had Hungarian been my mother tongue, it would have been more precious. Simply because through this extraordinary, ancient and powerful language it is possible to precisely describe the tiniest differences and the most secretive tremors of emotions.
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