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Human Quotes by George Bernard Shaw
- There is nothing that can be changed more completely than human nature when the job is taken in hand early enough.
- Nature holds no brief for the human experiment; it must stand or fall by its results.
- I can forgive Alfred Nobel for having invented dynamite, but only a fiend in human form could have invented the Nobel Prize.
- Our ideals, like the gods of old, are constantly demanding human sacrifices.
- Vivisection is a social evil because if it advances human knowledge, it does so at the expense of human character.
- The moment we face it frankly we are driven to the conclusion that the community has a right to put a price on the right…
- Capitalism drives the employers to do their worst to the employed, and the employed to do the least for them. And it boasts all the…
- To me the sole hope of human salvation lies in teaching Man to regard himself as an experiment in the realization of God, to regard…
- At present, intelligent people do not have their children vaccinated, nor does the law now compel them to. The result is not, as the Jennerians…
- There are scores of thousands of human insects who are ready at a moment's notice to reveal the Will of God on every possible subject
- Of all the damnable waste of human life that ever was invented, clerking is the worst.
- The great secret...is not having bad manners or good manners...but having the same manner for all human souls.
- I was convinced that Ceylon is the cradle of the human race because everyone there looks an original.
- It exasperated her to think that the dungeon in which she had languished for so many unhappy years had been unlocked all the time, and…
- Of all human struggles there is none so treacherous and remorseless as the struggle between the artist man and the mother woman.
- Remember that you are a human being with a soul and the divine gift of articulate speech: that your native language is the language of…
- Capitalism justified itself and was adopted as an economic principle on the express ground that it provides selfish motives for doing good, and that human…
- Eternal is the fact that the human creature born in Ireland and brought up in its air is Irish. I have lived for twenty years…
- Human misery is so appalling nowadays that if we allowed ourselves to dwell on it we should only add imaginary miseries of our own to…
- When domestic servants are treated as human beings it is not worth while to keep them.
- Marriage is the most licentious of human institutions.
- Human beings are the only animals of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid.
- You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
- The natural term of the affection of the human animal for its offspring is six years.
- The great secret, Eliza, is not having bad manners or good manners or any other particular sort of manners, but having the same manner for…
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- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others. — Aristotle
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- Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to swallow them… — Paul Auster
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