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Blasphemy and sedition (meaning the truth about Church and State).
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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Our laws make law impossible our liberties destroy all freedom our property is organized robbery our morality an impudent hypocrisy our wisdom is administered by inexperienced or mal-experienced dupes our power wielded by cowards and weaklings and our honour false in all its points. I am an enemy of the existing order for good reasons
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If the English can survive their food, they can survive anything.
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Some people look at the world and say 'why?' Some people look at the world and say 'why not?'
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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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I learned more from the first stupid woman who fell in love with me than ever my brains taught me.
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Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn.
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First really like is just a little bit foolishness as well as a lot of curiosity. No actually self-respecting girl would reap the benefits of it.
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Oh, the frontier of hell and heaven is only the difference between two ways of looking at things.
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All classes in proportion to their lack of travel and familiarity with foreign literature are bellicose, prejudiced against foreigners, fond of fighting as a cruel sport - in short, dog-like in their notions of foreign policy.
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Taxes are the chief business of a conqueror of the world.
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A contract for better for worse is a contract that should not be tolerated.
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Marriage is good enough for the lower classes: they have facilities for desertion that are denied to us.
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An election is a moral horror, as bad as a battle except for the blood a mud bath for every soul concerned in it.
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It is more dangerous to be a great prophet or poet than to promote twenty companies for swindling simple folk out of their savings.
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I never expect a soldier to think.
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Kings are not born: they are made by artificial hallucination.
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We must always think about things, and we must think about things as they are, not as they are said to be.
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All progress is due to the unreasonable person.
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