Duty Quotes by George Bernard Shaw

Our first duty is not to be poor.

— George Bernard Shaw

It is the first duty of every man not to be poor.

— George Bernard Shaw

The best bought-up children are those who have seen thier parents as they are. Hypocrisy is not the first duty of a…

— George Bernard Shaw

Our first duty, to which every other consideration should be sacrificed, is not to be poor.

— George Bernard Shaw

Every step of progress means a duty repudiated, and a scripture torn up.

— George Bernard Shaw

When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.

— George Bernard Shaw

Only Lawyers and mental defectives are automatically exempt for jury duty.

— George Bernard Shaw

War can so easily be gilt with romance and heroism and solemn national duty and patriotism and the like by persons whose…

— George Bernard Shaw

Here there is no hope, and consequently no duty, no work, nothing to be gained by praying, nothing to be lost by…

— George Bernard Shaw

Social progress takes effect through the replacement of all institutions by new ones; and since every institution involves the recognition of the…

— George Bernard Shaw

Plato long ago pointed out the importance of being governed by men with sufficient sense of responsibility and comprehension of public duties…

— George Bernard Shaw

The greatest evils and the worst of crimes is poverty; our first duty, a duty to which every other consideration should be…

— George Bernard Shaw

You are all alike, you respectable people. You can't tell me the bursting strain of a ten-inch gun, which is a very…

— George Bernard Shaw

No child should be brought up to suppose that its food and clothes come down from heaven or are miraculously conjured from…

— George Bernard Shaw