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Call Quotes by George Bernard Shaw
- We call the one side [of humanity] religion, and we call the other science. Religion is always right. ... Science is always wrong; it is…
- Oh, come! That boot is on the other leg. Why should you call me to account for eating decently? If I battened on the scorched…
- The notion that Nature does not proceed by jumps is only one of the budget of plausible lies that we call classical education. Nature always…
- You have set up in New York Harbor a monstrous idol which you call Liberty. The only thing that remains to complete that monument is…
- Crime is only the retail department of what, in wholesale, we call penal law.
- I am giving you examples of the fact that this creature man, who in his own selfish affairs is a coward to the backbone, will…
- This souls'prison we call England.
- If the governments devalue the currency in order to betray all creditors, you politely call this procedure 'inflation'.
- What we call education and culture is for the most part nothing but the substitution of reading for experience, of literature for life, of the…
- The established government has no more right to call itself the state than the smoke of London has to call itself the weather.
- Make money and the whole nation will conspire to call you a gentleman.
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