Burden Quote by George Bernard Shaw

“Revolutions have never lightened the burden of tyranny; they have only shifted it to another shoulder.”

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I love little children too but I don't cut off their heads and stick them in vases.

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Blasphemy and sedition (meaning the truth about Church and State).

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In the arts of life, man invents nothing; but in the arts of death he outdoes Nature herself, and produces by chemistry and machinery…

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“My religious convictions and scientific views cannot at present be more specifically defined than as those of a believer in creative evolution. I desire…

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What a man believes may be ascertained, not from his creed, but from the assumptions on which he habitually acts.

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You are my inspiration and my folly. You are my light across the sea, my million nameless joys, and my day's wage. You are…

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Men have to do some awfully mean things to keep up their respectability.

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The schoolmaster is the person who takes the children off the parents' hands for a consideration. That is to say, he establishes a child…

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As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death.

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The camera can represent flesh so superbly that, if I dared, I would never photograph a figure without asking that figure to take its…

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A man who is not a communist at the age of twenty is a fool. Any man who is still communist at the age…

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But to admire a strong person and to live under that strong person’s thumb are two different things.

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Everything I do is more memorable and I understand music more than ever now. It's not a burden to me.

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Trump's enduring appeal is a resource to be harnessed by the Republican Party, not a burden to be jettisoned.

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We cannot go back in time and change the past, but we can repent. The Savior can wipe away our tears of regret and…

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The world around us is an increasingly hostile and sinful place. Occasionally that splashes onto us, and perhaps, in the case of a few…

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'Inequality' has become the political theme/slogan of our time in both Europe and the U.S., yet political leaders do not even bother to consider…

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With those who are willing to join, let us cooperate to reduce the burden of arms, to strengthen the structure of peace, to lift…

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“What a burden it must be to know all the terrible things you've done and support it with arms unfit to carry it all.”

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And that, in a way, was the burden of being a philosopher: one knew what one had to do, but it was so often…

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Wherever I am, I see the yoke on women in some form or another. On some it sits easy for they are but beasts…

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It's a burden trying to keep a secret. It's hard. It probably takes more out of you trying to hold it and keep it…

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