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George Bernard Shaw
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“I’m an atheist and I thank God for it.”
George Bernard Shaw
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“If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas.”
George Bernard Shaw
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“Patriotism is the conviction that your country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.”
George Bernard Shaw
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“We live in an atmosphere of shame. We are ashamed of everything that is real about us; ashamed of ourselves, of our relatives, of our incomes, of our accents, of our opinions, of our experience, just as we are ashamed of our naked skins.”
George Bernard Shaw
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“Hypocrisy … is only bad when it is improperly used.”
George Bernard Shaw
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“Dogmatic toleration is nonsense: I would no more tolerate the teaching of Calvinism to children if I had power to persecute it than the British Raj tolerated suttee in India. Every civilized authority must draw a line between the tolerable and the intolerable.”
George Bernard Shaw
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“The degree of tolerance attainable at any moment depends on the strain under which society is maintaining its cohesion.”
George Bernard Shaw
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“When two people are under the influence of the most violent, most insane, most delusive, and most transient of passions, they are required to swear that they will remain in that excited, abnormal, and exhausting condition continuously until death do them part.”
George Bernard Shaw
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“I am a sort of collector of religions; and the curious thing is that I find I can believe them all.”
George Bernard Shaw
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“Religion is a great force: the only real motive force in the world; but what you fellows don’t understand is that you must get at a man through his own religion and not through yours.”
George Bernard Shaw
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“Really, Barbara, you go on as if religion were a pleasant subject. Do have some sense of propriety.”
George Bernard Shaw
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“I am a Millionaire. That is my religion.”
George Bernard Shaw
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“All the sweetness of religion is conveyed to children by the hands of storytellers and image-makers. Without their fictions the truths of religion would for the multitude be neither intelligible nor even apprehensible; and the prophets would prophesy and the philosophers celebrate in vain. And nothing stands between the people and the fictions except the silly falsehood that the fictions are literal truths, and that there is nothing in religion but fiction.”
George Bernard Shaw
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“I can’t talk religion to a man with bodily hunger in his eyes.”
George Bernard Shaw
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“Life on board a pleasure steamer violates every moral and physical condition of healthy life except fresh air…. It is a guzzling, lounging, gambling, dog’s life. The only alternative to excitement is irritability.”
George Bernard Shaw
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“A pornographic novelist is one who exploits the sexual instinct as a prostitute does. A legitimate sex novel elucidates it or brings out its poetry, tragedy, or comedy.”
George Bernard Shaw
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“We all have–to put it as nicely as I can–our lower centres and our higher centres. Our lower centres act: they act with terrible power that sometimes destroys us; but they don’t talk…. Since the war the lower centres have become vocal. And the effect is that of an earthquake. For they speak truths that have never been spoken before–truths that the makers of our domestic institutions have tried to ignore.”
George Bernard Shaw
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“What is any respectable girl brought up to do but to catch some rich man’s fancy and get the benefit of his money by marrying him?–as if a marriage ceremony could make any difference in the right or wrong of the thing!”
George Bernard Shaw
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“The sex illusion is not a fixed quantity: not what mathematicians call a constant. It varies from zero in my wife’s case to madness in that of our stepsister.”
George Bernard Shaw
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