George Bernard Shaw — Philosophical Quotes

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George Bernard Shaw Quotes

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George Bernard Shaw

Playwright, Critic

Philosophical

“As an old soldier, I admit the cowardice: it's as universal as seasickness, and matters just as little.”

Littles Justice Soldier

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George Bernard Shaw

Playwright, Critic

Philosophical

“Fashions are the only induced epidemics, proving that epidemics can be induced by tradesmen.”

Fashion Prove Epidemics

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Philosophical

“No man fully capable of his own language ever masters another.”

Men Language Masters

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Philosophical

“When domestic servants are treated as human beings it is not worth while to keep them.”

Humans Servant

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Philosophical

“Words are only postage stamps delivering the object for you to unwrap”

Objects Stamps

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Philosophical

“I have not wasted my life trifling with literary fools in taverns, as Johnson did, when he should have been shaking England with the thunder of his spirit”

Should Have Fool Taverns

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Philosophical

“We know now that the soul is the body, and the body the soul. They tell us they are different because they want to persuade us that we can keep our souls if we let them make slaves of our bodies.”

Soul Different Atheism

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Philosophical

“The whole strength of England lies in the fact that the enormous majority of the English people are snobs.”

People Lying Majority

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Philosophical

“There is nothing so bad or so good that you will not find Englishmen doing it; but you will never find an Englishman in the wrong. He does everything on principle.”

Doe Principles Englishmen

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Philosophical

“But to admire a strong person and to live under that strong person’s thumb are two different things.”

Two Strong Thumbs

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Philosophical

“Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family. But here again, because there is nothing to sell, there is a very general disposition to regard a married woman's work as no work at all, and to take it as a matter of course that she should not be paid for it.”

Country Matter Motherhood

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Philosophical

“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.”

Character Doe Evil

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