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The great danger of conversio...

The great danger of conversion in all ages has been that when the religion of the high mind is offered to the lower mind, the lower mind, feeling its fascination without understanding it, and being incapable of rising to it, drags it down to its level by degrading it.

George Bernard Shaw 1763 quotes

Security, the chief pretense ...

Security, the chief pretense of civilization, cannot exist where the worst of dangers, the danger of poverty, hangs over everyone's head.

George Bernard Shaw 1763 quotes

If more than ten percent of t...

If more than ten percent of the public likes a painting, it should be burned.

George Bernard Shaw 1763 quotes

I appeal to the chemists to d...

I appeal to the chemists to discover a humane gas that will kill instantly and painlessly. In short- a gentlemanly gas deadly by all means, but humane, not cruel.

George Bernard Shaw 1763 quotes

It is not true that men can b...

It is not true that men can be divided into absolutely honest persons and absolutely dishonest ones. Our honesty varies with the strain put on it.

George Bernard Shaw 1763 quotes

A vegetarian is not a person ...

A vegetarian is not a person who lives on vegetables, any more than a Catholic is a person who lives on cats.

George Bernard Shaw 1763 quotes

A man ought to be able to be ...

A man ought to be able to be fond of his wife without making a fool of himself about her.

George Bernard Shaw 1763 quotes

When asked which dog wins, he...

When asked which dog wins, he reflected for a moment and replied, "The one I feed the most."

George Bernard Shaw 1763 quotes

Let a short Act of Parliament...

Let a short Act of Parliament be passed, placing all street musicians outside the protection of the law, so that any citizen may assail them with stones, sticks, knives, pistols or bombs without incurring any penalties.

George Bernard Shaw 1763 quotes

Imprisonment, as it exists to...

Imprisonment, as it exists today, is a worse crime than any of those committed by its victims.

George Bernard Shaw 1763 quotes

The real Brahms is nothing mo...

The real Brahms is nothing more than a sentimental voluptuary. rather tiresomely addicted to dressing himself up as Handel or Beethoven and making a prolonged and intolerable noise.

George Bernard Shaw 1763 quotes

The real moment of success is...

The real moment of success is not the moment apparent to the crowd.

George Bernard Shaw 1763 quotes

Is the devil to have all the ...

Is the devil to have all the passions as well as all the good tunes?

George Bernard Shaw 1763 quotes

I feel nothing but the accurs...

I feel nothing but the accursed happiness I have dreaded all my life long: the happiness that comes as life goes, the happiness of yielding and dreaming instead of resisting and doing, the sweetness of the fruit that is going rotten.

George Bernard Shaw 1763 quotes

A man who desires to get marr...

A man who desires to get married should know everything or nothing.

George Bernard Shaw 1763 quotes

A married man forms married h...

A married man forms married habits and becomes dependent on marriage just as a sailor becomes dependent on the sea.

George Bernard Shaw 1763 quotes

What a heartbreaking job it i...

What a heartbreaking job it is trying to combine authors for their own protection... the first lesson I learned was that when you take the field for the authors you will be safer without a breastplate than without a backplate.

George Bernard Shaw 1763 quotes

Have you no morals, man?' 'Ca...

Have you no morals, man?' 'Can't afford them,Governor.

George Bernard Shaw 1763 quotes

While we have prisons it matt...

While we have prisons it matters little which of us occupy the cells.

George Bernard Shaw 1763 quotes

The degree of tolerance attai...

The degree of tolerance attainable at any moment depends on the strain under which society is maintaining its cohesion.

George Bernard Shaw 1763 quotes

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