Quotes by George Bernard Shaw

“Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.”

George Bernard Shaw
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“Patriotism is, fundamentally, a conviction that a particular country is the best in the world because you were born in it.”

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“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.”

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“I am a Millionaire. That is my religion.”

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“A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.”

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“A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.”

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“I dread success. To have succeeded is to have finished one’s business on earth, like the male spider, who is killed by the female the moment he has succeeded in his courtship. I like a state of continual becoming, with a goal in front and not behind.”

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“People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don’t believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can’t find them, make them.”

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“This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap; the being a force of Nature instead of a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy.”

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“All great truths begin as blasphemies.”

George Bernard Shaw
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