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Modern Quotes by George Bernard Shaw
- I believe that if a man like him were to assume the dictatorship of the modern world he would succeed in solving its problems in…
- Those who admire modern civilization usually identify it with the steam engine and the electric telegraph.
- A modern gentleman [rich person] is necessarily the enemy of his country. Even in war he does not fight to defend it, but to prevent…
- 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…
- Newspaper : A device unable to distinguish between a bicycle accident and the collapse of civilisation.
- The American Constitution, one of the few modern political documents drawn up by men who were forced by the sternest circumstances to think out what…
- The medieval doctors of divinity who did not pretend to settle how many angels could dance on the point of a needle cut a very…
- Rich men without convictions are more dangerous in modern society than poor women without chastity.
- Modern poverty is not the poverty that was blest in the Sermon on the Mount.
- Gentle Jesus, meek and mild' is a snivelling modern invention, with no warrant in the gospels.
- The technical history of modern harmony is a history of growth of toleration by the human ear of chords that at first sounded discordant and…
- In the Middle Ages people believed that the earth was flat, for which they had at least the evidence of their senses: we believe it…
More Modern Quotes
- Like many modern poets, I tend to conceal rhymes by placing them in the middle of lines, and to avoid immediate alliteration… — Margaret Atwood
- Before people complain of the obscurity of modern poetry, they should first examine their consciences and ask themselves with how many people… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- One of the most feared expressions in modern times is 'The computer is down.' — Norman Ralph Augustine
- The main reason for the failure of the modern medical science is that it is dealing with results and not causes. Nothing… — Edward Bach
- The early commentators who put down the pre-presidential Roosevelt as an empty-headed young lightweight, all ambition and no talent, now seem comically… — Russell Baker
- Discrimination due to age is one of the great tragedies of modern life. The desire to work and be useful is what… — Johnny Ball
- Writing a novel is one of those modern rites of passage, I think, that lead us from an innocent world of contentment,… — J. G. Ballard
- The tragedy of modern war is that the young men die fighting each other - instead of their real enemies back home… — Edward Abbey
- Your modern teenager is not about to listen to advice from an old person, defined as a person who remembers when there… — Dave Barry
- I've read some of your modern free verse and wonder who set it free. — John Barrymore
- I kind of lost interest in the classical dance. I was very much interested in the modern choreography. — Mikhail Baryshnikov
- Now there is in a way a renaissance of modern dance - suddenly, it is more respected and discovered. — Mikhail Baryshnikov