Quotes from George Bernard Shaw


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    All great truths begin as blasphemies.

    Great | Begin | Truths


    The idea of personal salvation is intensely repugnant to me when it is not absurd. Imagine Roosevelt, the big brute, preserving his personality in a future state and swaggering about as a celestial Rough Rider!

    Future | Personal | Rough


    You cannot be a hero without being a coward.

    Hero | Coward | Cannot


    Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.

    Patriotism | Others | Born


    Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.

    Censorship | Extreme | Form


    I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it.

    Learning | Pig | Learned


    Statistics show that of those who contract the habit of eating, very few survive.

    Food | Statistics | Eating


    It is the mark of a truly intelligent person to be moved by statistics.

    Intelligence | Statistics


    If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.

    Learning | History


    Lack of money is the root of all evil.

    Money | Evil | Root


    Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.

    Government | Election


    Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

    Life | Finding


    Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness.

    Great | Happiness


    Independence? That's middle class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.

    Independence | Blasphemy


    Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.

    Imagination | Beginning


    A gentleman is one who puts more into the world than he takes out.

    Gentleman | Takes | Puts


    A happy family is but an earlier heaven.

    Family | Happy | Heaven


    There is no sincerer love than the love of food.

    Food | Love


    The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.

    Communication


    We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.

    Wisdom | Future | Wise


       

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