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Social Quotes by George Bernard Shaw
- Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family. But here…
- 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…
- The notion that persons should be safe from extermination as long as they do not commit willful murder, or levy war against the Crown, or…
- Of all the anti-social vested interests the worst is the vested interest in ill-health.
- Education can and should do much influence social, moral and intellectual discovery by stimulating critical attitudes of thought in the young
- Nobody can live in society without conventions. The reason why sensible people are as conventional as they can bear to be is that conventionality saves…
- A revolutionist is one who desires to discard the existing social order and try another.
- Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family.
- 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…
- Until the men of action clear out the talkers we who have social consciences are at the mercy of those who have none.
- Those who talk most about the blessings of marriage and the constancy of its vows are the very people who declare that if the chain…
- Between persons of equal income there is no social distinction except the distinction of merit. Money is nothing: character, conduct, and capacity are everything. There…
- Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to this country and to mankind is to bring up a family.
More Social Quotes
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- Music is the social act of communication among people, a gesture of friendship, the strongest there is. — Malcolm Arnold
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- It's frightening how easy it is to commit murder in America. Just a drink too much. I can see myself doing it.… — Wystan Hugh Auden
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- I am a woman with a calling for social struggle and public service. — Michelle Bachelet
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