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A great social reformer.

George Bernard Shaw 1763 quotes

Marriage is to me apostasy, pr...

Marriage is to me apostasy, profanation of the sanctuary of my soul, violation of my manhood, sale of my birthright, shameful surrender, ignominious capitulation, acceptance of defeat.

George Bernard Shaw 1763 quotes

Martyrdom, sir, is what these ...

Martyrdom, sir, is what these people like: it is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.

George Bernard Shaw 1763 quotes

[Chess] is a foolish expedient...

[Chess] is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever, when they are only wasting their time.

George Bernard Shaw 1763 quotes

The word morality, if we met i...

The word morality, if we met it in the Bible, would surprise us as much as the word telephone or motor car.

George Bernard Shaw 1763 quotes

I have defined the hundred per...

I have defined the hundred per cent American as ninety-nine per cent an idiot.

George Bernard Shaw 1763 quotes

The quality of a play is the q...

The quality of a play is the quality of its ideas.

George Bernard Shaw 1763 quotes

War does not decide who is rig...

War does not decide who is right but who is left.

George Bernard Shaw 1763 quotes

Confusing monogamy with morali...

Confusing monogamy with morality has done more to destroy the conscience of the human race than any other error.

George Bernard Shaw 1763 quotes

Physically there is nothing to...

Physically there is nothing to distinguish human society from the farm-yard except that children are more troublesome and costly than chickens and calves and that men and women are not so completely enslaved as farm stock.

George Bernard Shaw 1763 quotes

That is the whole secret of su...

That is the whole secret of successful fighting. Get your enemy at a disadvantage; and never, on any account, fight him on equal terms.

George Bernard Shaw 1763 quotes

A modern gentleman [rich perso...

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.

George Bernard Shaw 1763 quotes

The road to ignorance is paved...

The road to ignorance is paved with good editors.

George Bernard Shaw 1763 quotes

Literature is like any other t...

Literature is like any other trade; you will never sell anything unless you go to the right shop.

George Bernard Shaw 1763 quotes

You must not suppose, because ...

You must not suppose, because I am a man of letters, that I never tried to earn an honest living.

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

George Bernard Shaw 1763 quotes

We should find ourselves commi...

We should find ourselves committed to killing a great many people whom we now leave living, and to leave living a great many people whom we at present kill. We should have to get rid of all ideas about capital punishment ...

George Bernard Shaw 1763 quotes

A part of eugenic politics wou...

A part of eugenic politics would finally land us in an extensive use of the lethal chamber. A great many people would have to be put out of existence simply because it wastes other people's time to look after them.

George Bernard Shaw 1763 quotes

The notion that persons should...

The notion that persons should be safe from extermination as long as they do not commit willful murder, or levy war against the Crown, or kidnap, or throw vitriol, is not only to limit social responsibility unnecessarily, and to privilege the large range of intolerable misconduct that lies outside them, but to divert attention from the essential justification for extermination, which is always incorrigible social incompatibility and nothing else.

George Bernard Shaw 1763 quotes

I would exchange every paintin...

I would exchange every painting of Christ for one snapshot.

George Bernard Shaw 1763 quotes

Добрые, щедрые, великодушные: 6 советских актеров, которые были всеобщими любимчиками

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Советских актёров часто ставят в пример как образец духовной силы, национальной гордости и внутренней красоты. Они стали символами эпохи, носителями культуры и нравственности. Но, как известно, за кул...

Десять кинозвезд, которые отлично поют

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Актеры — люди творческие, но кто бы мог подумать, что некоторые из них скрывают прекрасный голос. В эпоху раннего Голливуда актеров с музыкальными способностями было немало — это считалось скорее норм...

Мэрилин Монро, Ким Кардашьян и другие

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Неузнаваемая Ким Кардашьян в объективе фотографа Маркуса Клинко, 2009 год. Памела Андерсон в самой первой съёмке для журнала «Playboy», 1990. На фото голливудская актриса Dorothy Lamour и шимпанзе Джи...

Что стало с детьми-звездами: Рэдклифф и компания спустя годы

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Расскажем, как сложилась судьба актеров, которые начинали сниматься еще в детстве.
Остаться на вершине в Голливуде удаётся не каждому, особенно если путь начался в детстве. Одни актёры теряются из-за...

Жизнь за границей: как изменились судьбы 7 уехавших телеведущих

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Два года назад отечественное телевидение столкнулось с беспрецедентной кадровой тектоникой — целая группа ярких и узнаваемых ведущих стремительно исчезла с экранов федеральных каналов. Эти лица долгие...

Кира Найтли, Деми Мур и другие

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Кира Найтли на страницах журнала к выходу фильма «Пиджак», 2005. Следы динозавра, раскопанные в русле реки Палакси. Техас. США. 1952г. Самая большая женщина рядом с самым маленьким мужчиной, 1922 год....