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Civilization Quotes by George Bernard Shaw

16 Civilization quotes by George Bernard Shaw

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Civilization, for George Bernard Shaw, is a stage where progress and folly perform side by side. His quotes strip away grandiose rhetoric to reveal the contradictions in how societies claim refinement while clinging to primitive habits, making readers reconsider what true advancement really means.

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The problem with the press is that they can't tell the difference between a bicycle crash and the end of civilization.

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Civilized society is one huge bourgeoisie: no nobleman dares now shock his greengrocer.

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Those who admire modern civilization usually identify it with the steam engine and the electric telegraph.

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The universal regard for money is the one hopeful fact in our civilization.

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Newspapers are unable, seemingly to discriminate between a bicycle accident and the collapse of civilization

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Civilization is a disease produced by the practice of building societies with rotten material.

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We veneer civilization by doing unkind things in a kind way.

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Security, the chief pretense of civilization, cannot exist where the worst of dangers, the danger of poverty, hangs over everyone's head.

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No community has ever yet passed beyond the initial phases in which its pugnacity and fanaticism enabled it to found a nation,…

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We must not stay as we are, doing always what was done last time, or we shall stick in the mud. Yet…

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What we are confronted with now is a growing perception that if we desire a certain type of civilization and culture we…

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In a living society every day is a day of judgment; and its recognition as such is not the end of all…

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The more ignorant men are, the more convinced are they that their little parish and their little chapel is an apex to…

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I myself have been particularly careful never to say a civil word to the United States. I have scoffed at their inhabitants…

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There have been summits of civilization at which heretics like Socrates , who was killed because he was wiser than his neighbors,…

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The universal regard for money is the one hopeful fact in our civilization. Money is the most important thing in the world.…

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I love little children too but I don't cut off their heads and stick them in vases.

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Blasphemy and sedition (meaning the truth about Church and State).

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In the arts of life, man invents nothing; but in the arts of death he outdoes Nature herself, and produces by chemistry and machinery…

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“My religious convictions and scientific views cannot at present be more specifically defined than as those of a believer in creative evolution. I desire…

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What a man believes may be ascertained, not from his creed, but from the assumptions on which he habitually acts.

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You are my inspiration and my folly. You are my light across the sea, my million nameless joys, and my day's wage. You are…

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Men have to do some awfully mean things to keep up their respectability.

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The schoolmaster is the person who takes the children off the parents' hands for a consideration. That is to say, he establishes a child…

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As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death.

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The camera can represent flesh so superbly that, if I dared, I would never photograph a figure without asking that figure to take its…

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A man who is not a communist at the age of twenty is a fool. Any man who is still communist at the age…

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

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