Irish - Dramatist | July 26, 1856 - November 2, 1950
Property is organized robbery.
George Bernard Shaw
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You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
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Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.
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Few of us have vitality enough to make any of our instincts imperious.
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Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.
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Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.
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If you must hold yourself up to your children as an object lesson, hold yourself up as a warning and not as an example.
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An asylum for the sane would be empty in America.
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Why, except as a means of livelihood, a man should desire to act on the stage when he has the whole world to act in, is not clear to me.
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General consultant to mankind.
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All my life affection has been showered upon me, and every forward step I have made has been taken in spite of it.
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An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable.
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