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- There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), Plays Pleasant and Unpleasant (1898)
- It is impossible for an Englishman to open his mouth without making some other Englishman hate or despise him.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), Pygmalion (1916) preface
- Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), Shewing-Up of Blanco Posnet (1911) "Limits to Toleration"
- "Do you know what a pessimist is?" "A man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it."
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), An Unsocial Socialist (1887) ch. 5
- What is life but a series of inspired follies? The difficulty is to find them to do. Never lose a chance: it doesn't come every day.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), Pygmalion, Act 2
- If the lesser mind could measure the greater as a footrule can measure a pyramid, there would be finality in universal suffrage. As it is, the political problem remains unsolved.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
- A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it; it would be hell on earth.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
- A learned man is an idler who kills time with study. Beware of his false knowledge: it is more dangerous than ignorance.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), Man and Superman, 1903
- Gambling promises the poor what property performs for the rich--something for nothing.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
- An American has no sense of privacy. He does not know what it means.There is no such thing in the country.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
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