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We are compelled by the theor...

We are compelled by the theory of God's already achieved perfection to make Him a devil as well as a god, because of the existenceof evil. The god of love, if omnipotent and omniscient, must be the god of cancer and epilepsy as well.... Whoever admits that anything living is evil must either believe that God is malignantly capable of creating evil, or else believe that God has made many mistakes in His attempts to make a perfect being.

George Bernard Shaw 1763 quotes

During the Suffragette revolt...

During the Suffragette revolt of 1913 I[urged] that what was needed was not the vote, but a constitutional amendment enactingthat all representative bodies shall consist of women and men in equal numbers, whether elected or nominated or coopted or registered or picked up in the street like a coroner's jury. In the case of elected bodies the only way of effecting this is by the Coupled Vote. The representative unit must not be a man or a woman but a man and a woman.

George Bernard Shaw 1763 quotes

The lesson intended by an aut...

The lesson intended by an author is hardly ever the lesson the world chooses to learn from his book.

George Bernard Shaw 1763 quotes

You don't get tired of muffin...

You don't get tired of muffins, but you don't find inspiration in them.

George Bernard Shaw 1763 quotes

With the single exception of ...

With the single exception of Homer, there is no eminent writer, not even Sir Walter Scott, whom I can despise so entirely as I despise Shakespeare when I measure my mind against his. . . . It would positively be a relief to me to dig him up and throw stones at him.

George Bernard Shaw 1763 quotes

If you say that God is good, ...

If you say that God is good, great, blessed, wise or any such thing, the starting point is this : God is.

George Bernard Shaw 1763 quotes

The politician who once had t...

The politician who once had to learn to flatter Kings has now to learn how to fascinate, amuse, coax, humbug, frighten, or otherwise strike the fancy of the electorate.

George Bernard Shaw 1763 quotes

I sing, not arms and the hero...

I sing, not arms and the hero, but the philosophic man: he who seeks in contemplation to discover the inner will of the world, ininvention to discover the means of fulfilling that will, and in action to do that will by the so-discovered means.

George Bernard Shaw 1763 quotes

There is only one person an E...

There is only one person an English girl hates more than she hates her elder sister; and that is her mother.

George Bernard Shaw 1763 quotes

When I see that the nineteent...

When I see that the nineteenth century has crowned the idolatry of Art with the deification of Love, so that every poet is supposed to have pierced to the holy of holies when he has announced that Love is the Supreme, or the Enough, or the All, I feel that Art was safer in the hands of the most fanatical of Cromwell's major generals than it will be if ever it gets into mine.

George Bernard Shaw 1763 quotes

Nothing can save us from a pe...

Nothing can save us from a perpetual headlong fall into a bottomless abyss but a solid footing of dogma; and we no sooner agree to that than we find that the only trustworthy dogma is that there is no dogma.

George Bernard Shaw 1763 quotes

I ... must continue to strive...

I ... must continue to strive for more knowledge and more power, though the new knowledge always contradicts the old and the new power is the destruction of the fools who misuse it.

George Bernard Shaw 1763 quotes

I am highly susceptible to th...

I am highly susceptible to the force of all truly religious music, especially to the music of my own church, the church of Shelley, Michelangelo, and Beethoven.

George Bernard Shaw 1763 quotes

Your wits can't thicken in th...

Your wits can't thicken in that soft moist air, on those white springy roads, in those misty rushes and brown bogs, on those hillsides of granite rocks and magenta heather. You've no such colours in the sky, no such lure in the distances, no such sadness in the evenings. Oh the dreaming! the dreaming! the torturing, heart-scalding, never satisfying dreaming, dreaming, dreaming, dreaming!

George Bernard Shaw 1763 quotes

Blasphemy and sedition (meani...

Blasphemy and sedition (meaning the truth about Church and State).

George Bernard Shaw 1763 quotes

Unless the law of marriage we...

Unless the law of marriage were first made human, it could never become divine.

George Bernard Shaw 1763 quotes

Get married, but never to a m...

Get married, but never to a man who is home all day.

George Bernard Shaw 1763 quotes

Make it compulsory for a doct...

Make it compulsory for a doctor using a brass plate to have inscribed on it, in addition to the letters indicating his qualifications, the words 'Remember that I too am mortal'.

George Bernard Shaw 1763 quotes

The more reasonable a student...

The more reasonable a student was in mathematics, the more unreasonable she was in the affairs of real life, concerning which fewtrustworthy postulates have yet been ascertained.

George Bernard Shaw 1763 quotes

Bourgeois morality is largely...

Bourgeois morality is largely a system of making cheap virtues a cloak for expensive vices.

George Bernard Shaw 1763 quotes

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