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The seven deadly sins... food...

The seven deadly sins... food, clothing, firing, rent, taxes, respectability and children. Nothing can lift those seven millstones from Man's neck but money; and the spirit cannot soar until the millstones are lifted.

George Bernard Shaw 1763 quotes

The moment we face it frankly...

The moment we face it frankly we are driven to the conclusion that the community has a right to put a price on the right to live in it ... If people are fit to live, let them live under decent human conditions. If they are not fit to live, kill them in a decent human way. Is it any wonder that some of us are driven to prescribe the lethal chamber as the solution for the hard cases which are at present made the excuse for dragging all the other cases down to their level, and the only solution that will create a sense of full social responsibility in modern populations?

George Bernard Shaw 1763 quotes

We are members one of another...

We are members one of another; so that you cannot injure or help your neighbor without injuring or helping yourself.

George Bernard Shaw 1763 quotes

You do not settle whether an ...

You do not settle whether an argument is justified by merely showing that it is of some use. The distinction is not between useful and useless experiments but between barbarous and civilized behaviour. Vivisection is a social evil because if it advances human knowledge, it does so at the expense of human character.

George Bernard Shaw 1763 quotes

Poverty doesn't bring unhappi...

Poverty doesn't bring unhappiness; it brings degradation.

George Bernard Shaw 1763 quotes

Every man is a revolutionist ...

Every man is a revolutionist concerning the thing he understands. For example, every person who has mastered a profession is a skeptic concerning it, and consequently a revolutionist.

George Bernard Shaw 1763 quotes

I can think of no other edifi...

I can think of no other edifice constructed by man as altruistic as a lighthouse. They were built only to serve.

George Bernard Shaw 1763 quotes

The apparent multiplication o...

The apparent multiplication of gods is bewildering at the first glance, but you soon discover that they are the same GOD. There is always one uttermost God who defies personification. This makes Hinduism the most tolerant religion in the world, because its one transcendent God includes all possible gods. In fact Hinduism is so elastic and so subtle that the most profound Methodist, and crudest idolater, are equally at home with it.

George Bernard Shaw 1763 quotes

Capitalism justified itself a...

Capitalism justified itself and was adopted as an economic principle on the express ground that it provides selfish motives for doing good, and that human beings will do nothing except for selfish motives

George Bernard Shaw 1763 quotes

A man's interest in the world...

A man's interest in the world is only the overflow from his interest in himself. When you are a child your vessel is not yet full;so you care for nothing but your own affairs. When you grow up, your vessel overflows; and you are a politician, a philosopher, or an explorer and adventurer. In old age the vessel dries up: there is no overflow: you are a child again.

George Bernard Shaw 1763 quotes

Property, said Proudhon, is t...

Property, said Proudhon, is theft. This is the only perfect truism that has been uttered on the subject.

George Bernard Shaw 1763 quotes

We're human beings we are - a...

We're human beings we are - all of us - and that's what people are liable to forget. Human beings don't like peace and goodwill and everybody loving everybody else. However much they may think they do, they don't really because they're not made like that. Human beings love eating and drinking and loving and hating. They also like showing off, grabbing all they can, fighting for their rights and bossing anybody who'll give them half a chance.

George Bernard Shaw 1763 quotes

Without danger I cannot be gr...

Without danger I cannot be great. That is how I pay for Abel's blood. Danger and fear follow my steps everywhere. Without them courage would have no sense. And it is courage, courage, courage that raises the blood of life to crimson splendor.

George Bernard Shaw 1763 quotes

The ordinary man is an anarch...

The ordinary man is an anarchist. He wants to do as he likes. He may want his neighbour to be governed, but he himself doesn't want to be governed. He is mortally afraid of government officials and policemen.

George Bernard Shaw 1763 quotes

It is long and hard and painf...

It is long and hard and painful to create life: it is short and easy to steal the life others have made.

George Bernard Shaw 1763 quotes

What is the use of straining ...

What is the use of straining after an amiable view of things, when a cynical view is most likely to be the true one?.

George Bernard Shaw 1763 quotes

No sooner had Jesus knocked o...

No sooner had Jesus knocked over the dragon of superstition than Paul boldly set it on its legs again in the name of Jesus.

George Bernard Shaw 1763 quotes

When the horrors of anarchy f...

When the horrors of anarchy force us to set up laws that forbid us to fight and torture one another for sport, we still snatch at every excuse for declaring individuals outside the protection of law and torturing them to our hearts content.

George Bernard Shaw 1763 quotes

If you do not say a thing in ...

If you do not say a thing in an irritating way, you may as well not say it at all because people will not trouble themselves about anything that does not trouble them.

George Bernard Shaw 1763 quotes

I hope you have lost your goo...

I hope you have lost your good looks, for while they last any fool can adore you, and the adoration of fools is bad for the soul.

George Bernard Shaw 1763 quotes

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