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Public Quotes by George Bernard Shaw
- In your dread of dictators you established a state of society in which every ward boss is a dictator, every private employer a dictator, every…
- Englishmen never will be slaves; they are free to do whatever the government and public opinion allow them.
- If more than ten percent of the public likes a painting, it should be burned.
- The policy of letting things alone, in the practical sense that the Government should never interfere with business or go into business itself, is called…
- Democracy is a word all public men use and none understand.
- It has taken me nearly twenty years of studied self-restraint, aided by the natural decay of my faculties, to make myself dull enough to be…
- Any sort of plain speaking is better than the nauseous sham good fellowship our democratic public men get up for shop use.
- Plato long ago pointed out the importance of being governed by men with sufficient sense of responsibility and comprehension of public duties to be very…
- No diet will remove all the fat from your body because the brain is entirely fat. Without a brain, you might look good, but all…
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- NASA has been one of the most successful public investments in motivating students to do well and achieve all they can achieve.… — Neil Armstrong
- The extravagant expenditure of public money is an evil not to be measured by the value of that money to the people… — Chester A. Arthur
- Dare to risk public criticism. — Mary Kay Ash
- We get information in the mail, the regular postal mail, encrypted or not, vet it like a regular news organization, format it… — Julian Assange
- Public opinion is no more than this: what people think that other people think. — Alfred Austin
- The public character of every public servant is legitimate subject of discussion, and his fitness or unfitness for office may be fairly… — Charles Babbage
- It will be readily admitted, that a degree conferred by an university, ought to be a pledge to the public that he… — Charles Babbage
- Some people will go to the opening of an envelope. They live their lives in the public eye and get off on… — Jensen Ackles
- I am a woman with a calling for social struggle and public service. — Michelle Bachelet
- The possibility of my presidential candidacy emerged spontaneously in public opinion polls. For my part, I noticed people's affection when I was… — Michelle Bachelet