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Rebellious Quotes by George Bernard Shaw
- A revolutionist is one who desires to discard the existing social order and try another.
- No doubt it is easy to demostrate that property will destroy society unless society destroys it.
- What is really important in Man is the part of him that we do not understand. Of much of it we are not even conscious,…
- No community has ever yet passed beyond the initial phases in which its pugnacity and fanaticism enabled it to found a nation, and its cupidity…
- The vilest abortionist is he who attempts to mould a child's character.
- Assasination on the scaffold is the worst form of assasination, because there it is invested with the approval of society.
- Crime is only the retail department of what, in wholesale, we call penal law.
- Property, said Proudhon, is theft. This is the only perfect truism that has been uttered on the subject.
- Obedience simulates subordination as fear of the police simulates honesty.
- Those who minister to poverty and disease are accomplices in the two worst of all the crimes.
- If the wicked flourish and the fittest survive, Nature must be the god of rascals.
- Find enough clever things to say, and you're a Prime Minister; write them down and you're a Shakespeare.
- I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people.
- Kings are not born: they are made by artificial hallucination.
- Nothing is worth doing unless the consequences may be serious.
- Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty; what is the matter with the rich is…
- In a battle all you need to make you fight is a little hot blood and the knowledge that it's more dangerous to lose than…
- I'm an atheist and I thank God for it.
- Old men are dangerous: it doesn't matter to them what is going to happen to the world.
- I enjoy convalescence. It is the part that makes the illness worth while.
- Why, except as a means of livelihood, a man should desire to act on the stage when he has the whole world to act in,…
- In an ugly and unhappy world the richest man can purchase nothing but ugliness and unhappiness.
- I'm not a teacher: only a fellow traveler of whom you asked the way. I pointed ahead - ahead of myself as well as you.
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- Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind… — Aristotle
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- The liberties of our country, the freedom of our civil constitution, are worth defending against all hazards: And it is our duty… — Samuel Adams
- He who is void of virtuous attachments in private life is, or very soon will be, void of all regard for his… — Samuel Adams
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- The natural liberty of man is to be free from any superior power on Earth, and not to be under the will… — Samuel Adams
- We cannot make events. Our business is wisely to improve them. — Samuel Adams
- In order for the artist to have a world to express he must first be situated in this world, oppressed or oppressing,… — Charles Baudelaire
- It's not the work which kills people, it's the worry. It's not the revolution that destroys machinery it's the friction. — Henry Ward Beecher
- The wheel that squeaks the loudest is the one that gets the grease. — Josh Billings
- Common sense is instinct, and enough of it is genius. — Josh Billings