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What I Say Today Everybody Will Say Tomorrow, Though They Will Not Remember Who Put It Into Their Heads. Indeed They Will Be Right For I Never Remember Who Puts Things Into My Head : It Is The Zeitgeist.

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George Bernard Shaw

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What I Say Today Everybody Will Say Tomorrow, Though They Will Not Remember Who Put It Into Their Heads. Indeed They Will Be Right For I Never Remember Who Puts Things Into My Head : It Is The Zeitgeist.

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We Want A Few Mad People Now. See Where The Sane Ones Have Landed Us!

Never Repeat Old Grievances.

It Is Difficult, If Not Impossible, For Most People To Think Otherwise Than In The Fashion Of Their Own Period.

A Man Learns To Skate By Staggering About And Making A Fool Of Himself. Indeed He Progresses In All Things By Resolutely Making A Fool Of Himself.

The Man With A Toothache Thinks Everyone Happy Whose Teeth Are Sound. The Poverty-stricken Man Makes The Same Mistake About The Rich Man.

My Rank Is The Highest Known In Switzerland: I'm A Free Citizen.

Silence Is The Most Perfect Expression Of Scorn.

Geniuses Are Horrid, Intolerant, Easily Offended, Sleeplessly Self-conscious Men, Who Expect Their Wives To Be Angels With No Further Business In Life Than To Pet And Worship Their Husbands. Even At The Best They Are Not Comfortable Men To Live With; And A Perfect Husband Is One Who Is Perfectly Comfortable To Live With.

Socialism Is The Same As Communism, Only Better English.

Most Of The Money Given By Rich People In "charity" Is Made Up Of Conscience Money, "ransom," Political Bribery, And Bids For Titles.... One Buys Moral Credit By Signing A Cheque, Which Is Easier Than Turning A Prayer Wheel.

History, Sir, Will Tell Lies As Usual.

When A Stupid Man Is Doing Something He Is Ashamed Of, He Always Declares That It Is His Duty.

To Me The Sole Hope Of Human Salvation Lies In Teaching.

While Browsing In A Second-hand Bookshop One Day, George Bernard Shaw Was Amused To Find A Copy Of One Of His Own Works Which He Himself Had Inscribed For A Friend: "to ----, With Esteem, George Bernard Shaw." He Immediately Purchased The Book And Returned It To The Friend With A Second Inscription: "with Renewed Esteem, George Bernard Shaw.

Justice Is Justice Though It's Always Delayed And Finally Done Only By Mistake.

Financiers Live In A World Of Illusion. They Count On Something Which They Call The Capital Of The Country, Which Has No Existence.

The Quality Of A Play Is The Quality Of Its Ideas.

Like Fingerprints, All Marriages Are Different.

What Is The Matter With The Rich Is Uselessness.

Riches And Poors

The 100% American Is 99% Idiot.

Liquor Is The Chloroform Which Enables The Poor Man To Endure The Painful Operation Of Living.

God's Trustiest Lieutenants Often Lack Official Credentials. They May Be Professed Atheists Who Are Also Men Of Honour And High Public Spirit.

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 Financier A Dictator, All With The Livelihood Of The Workers At His Mercy, And No Public Responsibility.

I Am Afraid We Must Make The World Honest Before We Can Honestly Say To Our Children That Honesty Is The Best Policy.

Even Under The Most Perfect Social Democracy We Should, Without Communism, Still Be Living Like Hogs, Except That Each Hog Would Get His Fair Share Of Grub.... Whilst We Are Hogs, Let Us At Least Be Well-fed, Healthy, Reciprocally Useful Hogs, Instead Of--well, Instead Of The Sort We Are At Present.

Gambling Promises The Poor What Property Performs For The Rich-something For Nothing.

The Longer I Live, The More Convinced Am I That This Planet Is Used By Other Planets As A Lunatic Asylum.

Lunatic Asylums

Rich Men Without Convictions Are More Dangerous In Modern Society Than Poor Women Without Chastity.

No Use Slaving For Me And Then Saying You Want To Be Cared For: Who Cares For A Slave? If You Come Back, Come Back For The Sake Of Good Fellowship; For You’ll Get Nothing Else.

What Man Really Wishes To Do He Will Find A Means Of Doing.

If You Don't Begin To Be A Revolutionist At The Age Of Twenty, Then At Fifty You Will Be A Most Impossible Old Fossil. If You Area Red Revolutionary At The Age Of Twenty, You Have Some Chance Of Being Up-to-date When You Are Forty!

Men Trifle With Their Business And Their Politics But Never Trifle With Their Games. It Brings Truth Home To Them. They Cannot Pretend They Have Won When They Have Lost Nor That They Had A Magnificent Drive When They Foozled It. The Englishman Is At His Best On The Links And At His Worst In The Cabinet.

An Index Is A Great Leveller.

Science Is Always Simple And Always Profound. It Is Only The Half-truths That Are Dangerous.

You Use A Glass Mirror To See Your Face; You Use Works Of Art To See Your Soul.

Some Persons, By Hating Vice Too Much, Come To Love Men Too Little. Hatred Is Self-punishment. Hatred Is The Cowards Revenge For Being Intimidated.

If A Woman Rebels Against High-heeled Shoes, She Should Take Care To Do It In A Very Smart Hat

Get Married, But Never To A Man Who Is Home All Day.

Nobody Supposes That Doctors Are Less Virtuous Than Judges; But A Judge Whose Salary And Reputation Depended On Whether The Verdict Was For Plaintiff Or Defendant, Prosecutor Or Prisoner, Would Be As Little Trusted As A General In The Pay Of The Enemy.

The Test Of A Man Or Woman's Breeding Is How They Behave In A Quarrel.

You Propound A Complicated Arithmetical Problem: Say Cubing A Number Containing Four Digits. Give Me A Slate And Half An Hour's Time, And I Can Produce A Wrong Answer.

Instead Of Otello Being An Italian Opera Written In The Style Of Shakespeare, Othello Is A Play Written By Shakespeare In The Style Of Italian Opera.

Crime Is Only The Retail Department Of What, In Wholesale, We Call Penal Law.

Every Person Who Has Mastered A Profession Is A Skeptic Concerning It.

I Tell You That As Long As I Can Conceive Something Better Than Myself I Cannot Be Easy Unless I Am Striving To Bring It Into Existence Or Clearing The Way For It.

Blasphemy And Sedition (meaning The Truth About Church And State).

Church And State

When The World Goes Mad, One Must Accept Madness As Sanity; Since Sanity Is, In The Last Analysis, Nothing But The Madness On Which The Whole World Happens To Agree.

The Great Secret, Eliza, Is Not Having Bad Manners Or Good Manners Or Any Other Particular Sort Of Manners, But Having The Same Manner For All Human Souls: In Short, Behaving As If You Were In Heaven, Where There Are No Thirdclass Carriages, And One Soul Is As Good As Another.

To Me The Sole Hope Of Human Salvation Lies In Teaching Man To Regard Himself As An Experiment In The Realization Of God, To Regard His Hands As God's Hand, His Brain As God's Brain, His Purpose As God's Purpose. He Must Regard God As A Helpless Longing, Which Longed Him Into Existence By Its Desperate Need For An Executive Organ.

The Only Power A God Can Teach Is The Power Of Doing Without Happiness.

Happiness And Beauty Are By-products.

Happiness And Beauty

Find Enough Clever Things To Say, And You're A Prime Minister; Write Them Down And You're A Shakespeare.

The Pianoforte Is The Most Important Of All Musical Instruments; Its Invention Was To Music What The Invention Of Printing Was To Poetry.

It Is Feeling That Sets A Man Thinking, And Not Thought That Sets Him Feeling.

Any Sort Of Plain Speaking Is Better Than The Nauseous Sham Good Fellowship Our Democratic Public Men Get Up For Shop Use.

Remember Always That The Least Plain Sister Is The Family Beauty.

Nothing Is Ever Accomplished By A Reasonable Man.

In My Dreams Is A Country Where The State Is The Church And The Church The People: Three In One And One In Three. It Is A Commonwealth In Which Work Is Play And Play Is Life: Three In One And One In Three. It Is A Temple In Which The Priest Is The Worshiper And The Worshiper The Worshipped: Three In One And One In Three. It Is A Godhead In Which All Life Is Human And All Humanity Divine: Three In One And One In Three.

Very Nice Sort Of Place, Oxford, I Should Think, For People That Like That Sort Of Place.

What God Hath Joined Together No Man Shall Put Asunder: God Will Take Care Of That.

Girls, Like Men, Want To Be Petted, Pitied, And Made Much Of, When They Are Diffident, In Low Spirits, Or In Unrequited Love. These Are Services Which The Weak Cannot Render To The Strong And Which The Strong Will Not Render To The Weak, Except When There Is Also A Difference Of Sex.

It Is Assumed That The Woman Must Wait, Motionless, Until She Is Wooed. That Is How The Spider Waits For The Fly.

There Are Two Things Necessary To Salvation.... Money And Gunpowder.

[chess] Is A Foolish Expedient For Making Idle People Believe They Are Doing Something Very Clever, When They Are Only Wasting Their Time.

Virtue Is Insufficient Temptation.

Communism, Being The Lay Form Of Catholicism, And Indeed Meaning The Same Thing, Has Never Had Any Lack Of Chaplains.

The Churches Must Learn Humility As Well As Teach It.

Which Painting In The National Gallery Would I Save If There Was A Fire? The One Nearest The Door Of Course.

I Have Not Wasted My Life Trifling With Literary Fools In Taverns, As Johnson Did, When He Should Have Been Shaking England With The Thunder Of His Spirit

The Greatest Evils And The Worst Of Crimes Is Poverty; Our First Duty, A Duty To Which Every Other Consideration Should Be Sacrificed, Is Not To Be Poor.

What Really Flatters A Man Is That You Think Him Worth Flattering.

When A Bishop At The First Shot Abandons The Worship Of Christ And Rallies His Flock Round The Altar Of Mars, He May Be Acting Patriotically... But That Does Not Justify Him In Pretending...that Christ Is, In Effect, Mars.

If A Man Is Indolent, Let Him Be Poor. If He Is Drunken, Let Him Be Poor.... Also--somewhat Inconsistently--blessed Are The Poor!

The Only Service A Friend Can Really Render Is To Keep Up Your Courage By Holding Up To You A Mirror In Which You Can See A Noble Image Of Yourself.

Revolutions Have Never Lightened The Burden Of Tyranny; They Have Only Shifted It To Another Shoulder.

There Is Nothing In Religion But Fiction.

The Shot Irishmen Will Now Take Their Places Beside Emmet And The Manchester Martyrs In Ireland, And Beside The Heroes Of Poland And Sérbia And Belgium In Europe; And Nothing In Heaven Or Earth Can Prevent It.

We Must Always Think About Things, And We Must Think About Things As They Are, Not As They Are Said To Be.

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 To Establish And Develop A Commercial Civilization.

Women Upset Everything. When You Let Them Into Your Life, You Find That The Woman Is Driving At One Thing And You're Driving At Another.

Great Art Is Never Produced For Its Own Sake. It Is Too Difficult To Be Worth The Effort.

The Practical Question, Then, Is What To Do With The Children. Tolerate Them At Home We Will Not. Let Them Run Loose In The Streets We Dare Not Until Our Streets Become Safe Places For Children, Which, To Our Utter Shame, They Are Not At Present, Though They Can Hardly Be Worse Than Some Homes And Some Schools.

You Can Always Tell An Old Soldier By The Inside Of His Holsters And Cartridge Boxes. The Young Ones Carry Pistols And Cartridges; The Old Ones, Grub.

My Opportunities Were Still There, Nay, They Multiplied Tenfold; But The Strength And Youth To Cope With Them Began To Fail, And To Need Eking Out With The Shifty Cunning Of Experience.

Build A System That Even A Fool Can Use, And Only A Fool Will Want To Use It.

Use It Or Lose It

Until The Men Of Action Clear Out The Talkers We Who Have Social Consciences Are At The Mercy Of Those Who Have None.

All Great Art And Literature Is Propaganda.

Imprisonment Is As Irrevocable As Death.

Freedom, My Good Girl, Means Being Able To Count On How Other People Will Behave.

The Reasonable Man Adapts Himself To The World; The Unreasonable One Persists To Adapt The World To Himself. Therefore All Progress Depends On The Unreasonable Man.

Life Levels All Men. Death Reveals The Eminent.

As Long As I Have A Want, I Have A Reason For Living. Satisfaction Is Death.

A Native American Elder Once Described His Own Inner Struggles In This Manner: Inside Of Me There Are Two Dogs. One Of The Dogs Is Mean And Evil. The Other Dog Is Good. The Mean Dog Fights The Good Dog All The Time. When Asked Which Dog Wins, He Reflected For A Moment And Replied, The One I Feed The Most.

Few People Think More Than Two Or Three Times A Year; I Have Made An International Reputation For Myself By Thinking Once Or Twice A Week.

Martyrdom Is The Only Path To Immortality That Requires No Talent Whatsoever.

The Worst Sin Toward Our Fellow Creatures Is Not To Hate Them, But To Be Indifferent To Them: That's The Essence Of Inhumanity.

I Can't Control What Life Did To Me, But I Can Control How I React. Therein Lies The Difference.

If Any Religion Had A Chance Of Ruling Over England, Nay Europe Within The Next Hundred Years, It Could Be Islam.

War Can So Easily Be Gilt With Romance And Heroism And Solemn National Duty And Patriotism And The Like By Persons Whose Superficial Literary And Oratorical Talent Covers An Abyss Of Godforsaken Folly.

What Is Virtue But The Trade Unionism Of The Married?

You Can Rave About Stravinsky Without The Slightest Risk Of Being Classified As A Lunatic By The Next Generation .

I Want To Be All Used Up When I Die.

Women Are Not Angels. They Are As Foolish As Men In Many Ways; But They Have Had To Devote Themselves To Life Whilst Men Have Had To Devote Themselves To Death; And That Makes A Vital Difference In Male And Female Religion. Women Have Been Forced To Fear Whilst Men Have Been Forced To Dare: The Heroism Of A Woman Is To Nurse And Protect Life, And Of A Man To Destroy It And Court Death.

We Learn From Experience That Men Never Learn Anything From Experience.

New Opinions Often Appear First As Jokes And Fancies, Then As Blasphemies And Treason, Then As Questions Open To Discussion, And Finally As Established Truths.

The Medieval Doctors Of Divinity Who Did Not Pretend To Settle How Many Angels Could Dance On The Point Of A Needle Cut A Very Poor Figure As Far As Romantic Credulity Is Concerned Beside The Modern Physicists Who Have Settled To The Billionth Of A Millimetre Every Movement And Position In The Dance Of The Electrons. Not For Worlds Would I Question The Precise Accuracy Of These Calculations Or The Existence Of Electrons (whatever They May Be). The Fate Of Joan Is A Warning To Me Against Such Heresy.

The Way To Deal With Worldly People Is To Frighten Them By Repeating Their Scandalous Whisperings Aloud.

I Can't Turn Your Soul On. Leave Me Those Feelings; And You Can Take Away The Voice And The Face. They Are Not You.

Life At Its Noblest Leaves Mere Happiness Far Behind; And Indeed Cannot Endure It. Happiness Is Not The Object Of Life: Life Has No Object: It Is An End In Itself; And Courage Consists In The Readiness To Sacrifice Happiness For An Intenser Quality Of Life.

Live In Contact With Dreams And You Will Get Something Of Their Charm: Live In Contact With Facts And You Will Get Something Of Their Brutality. I Wish I Could Find A Country To Live In Where The Facts Were Not Brutal And The Dreams Not Real.

A Life Spent Making Mistakes Is Not Only More Honorable, But More Useful Than A Life Spent Doing Nothing.

A Learned Man Is An Idler Who Kills Time By Study.

A Modern Gentleman [rich Person] Is Necessarily The Enemy Of His Country. Even In War He Does Not Fight To Defend It, But To Prevent His Power Of Preying On It From Passing To A Foreigner.

I Hate The Poor And Look Forward Eagerly To Their Extermination.

The Man Who Has Never Made A Mistake Will Never Make Anything Else.

Every Profession Is A Conspiracy Against The Laity.

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 To Live In It

Experience Fails To Teach Where There Is No Desire To Learn.

When A Man Says Money Can Do Anything, That Settles It: He Hasn't Got Any.

If All You Are Going To Do In Life Are The Things That Are Convenient And Comfortable, The Great Things Never Get Done.

Life Isn't About Finding Yourself. Life Is About Creating Yourself.

Even To This Day It Is Easier Than It Ought To Be For Me To Get A Rise Out Of An American By Telling Him Something About Himself Which Is Equally True About Every Human Being On The Face Of The Globe. He At Once Resents This As A Disparagement And An Assertion On My Part That People In Other Parts Of The Globe Are Not Like That, And Are Loftily Superior To Such Weaknesses.

What Is Any Respectable Girl Brought Up To Do But To Catch Some Rich Man's Fancy And Get The Benefit Of His Money By Marrying Him?--as If A Marriage Ceremony Could Make Any Difference In The Right Or Wrong Of The Thing!

Stop Being Jews And Start Being Human Beings.

Of All The Anti-social Vested Interests The Worst Is The Vested Interest In Ill-health.

Religion Is A Good Invention In Times Of Stress.

Though The Life Force Supplies Us With Its Own Purpose, It Has No Other Brains To Work With Than Those It Has Painfully And Imperfectly Evolved In Our Heads.

Man Gives Every Reason For His Conduct Save One, Every Excuse For His Crimes Save One, Every Plea For His Safety Save One; And That One Is His Cowardice

I Do Not Waste My Time Writing Pot-boilers: The Pot Must Be Boiled, And Even My Pot Au Feu Has Some Chunks Of Fresh Meat In It. ...i Have No Time To Boil Myself Down; And Anyhow I Could Not Do So And Preserve All The Necessary Nutriment And The Flavoring On Which The Digestibility Depends.

Englishmen Hate Liberty And Equality Too Much To Understand Them. But Every Englishman Loves A Pedigree.

You'll Never Have A Quiet World Till You Knock The Patriotism Out Of The Human Race.

Opera Is When A Tenor And Soprano Want To Make Love, But Are Prevented From Doing So By A Baritone.

My Friend, When A Man Has Anything To Tell In This World, The Difficulty Is Not To Make Him Tell It, But To Prevent Him From Telling It Too Often.

Well, Sir, You Never Can Tell. That's A Principle In Life With Me, Sir, If You'll Excuse My Having Such A Thing.

A Miracle, My Friend, Is An Event Which Creates Faith.

All Dress Is Fancy Dress, Is It Not, Except Our Natural Skins?

A Tranquil Woman Can Go On Sewing Longer Than An Angry Man Can Go On Fuming.

We Must All Share In The Evils Of The World Or Move To Another Planet.

The Real Brahms Is Nothing More Than A Sentimental Voluptuary

The Perfect Love Affair Is One Which Is Conducted Entirely By Post.

The Minorities Are Sometimes Right. The Majorities Never.

Nothing Is More Dangerous Than A Poor Doctor: Not Even A Poor Employer Or A Poor Landlord.

In Heaven An Angel Is Nobody In Particular.

Obedience Simulates Subordination As Fear Of The Police Simulates Honesty.

The Body Was The Slave Of The Vortex; But The Slave Has Become The Master; And We Must Free Ourselves From That Tyranny. It Is This Stuff [ Indicating Her Body ], This Flesh And Blood And Bone And All The Rest Of It, That Is Intolerable. Even Prehistoric Man Dreamed Of What He Called An Astral Body, And Asked Who Would Deliver Him From The Body Of This Death.

You Know Well I Couldn't Bear To Live With A Low Common Man After You Two; And It's Wicked And Cruel Of You To Insult Me By Pretending I Could.

The Notion That Disarmament Can Put A Stop To War Is Contradicted By The Nearest Dogfight.

A Man Ought To Be Able To Be Fond Of His Wife Without Making A Fool Of Himself About Her.

Think What Cowards Men Would Be If They Had To Bear Children. Women Are Altogether A Superior Species.

Treat Persons Who Profess To Be Able To Cure Disease As You Treat Fortune Tellers.

Make Money And The Whole Nation Will Conspire To Call You A Gentleman.

When I Speak Of The Case For Equality I Mean Human Equality; And That, Of Course, Can Only Mean One Thing: It Means Equality Of Income.

It's Usually Pointed Out That Women Are Not Fit For Political Power, And Ought Not To Be Trusted With A Vote Because They Are Politically Ignorant, Socially Prejudiced, Narrow-minded, And Selfish. True Enough, But Precisely The Same Is True Of Men!

The Only Way To Avoid Being Miserable Is Not To Have Enough Leisure To Wonder Whether You Are Happy Or Not.

Those Who Won't Hesitate To Vivisect, Won't Hesitate To Lie About It As Well.

Once The Divinity We Worshipped Made Itself Visible And Comprehensible, We Crucified It.

Altogether Too Many Sheep

There Is Nothing On Earth More Exquisite Than A Bonny Book, With Well-placed Columns Of Rich Black Writing In Beautiful Borders, And Illuminated Pictures Cunningly Inset. But Nowadays, Instead Of Looking At Books, People Read Them. A Book Might As Well Be One Of Those Orders For Bacon And Bran.

Perhaps You Know Some Well-off Families Who Do Not Seem To Suffer From Their Riches. They Do Not Overeat Themselves; They Find Occupations To Keep Themselves In Health; They Do Not Worry About Their Position; They Put Their Money Into Safe Investments And Are Content With A Low Rate Of Interest; And They Bring Up Their Children To Live Simply And Do Useful Work. But This Means That They Do Not Live Like Rich People At All, And Might Therefore Just As Well Have Ordinary Incomes.

As An Old Soldier, I Admit The Cowardice: It's As Universal As Seasickness, And Matters Just As Little.

I Don't Believe In Morality . I'm A Disciple Of Bernard Shaw.

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 Laisser-faire By Economists And Politicians. It Has Broken Down So Completely In Practice That It Is Now Discredited; But It Was All The Fashion In Politics A Hundred Years Ago, And Is Still Influentially Advocated By Men Of Business And Their Backers Who Naturally Would Like To Be Allowed To Make Money As They Please Without Regard To The Interest Of The Public.

All Sorts Of Bodily Diseases Are Produced By Half-used Minds.

Man Can Climb To The Highest Summits, But He Cannot Dwell There Long.

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.

Woman Reduces Us All To The Common Denominator.

If You Begin By Sacrificing Yourself To Those You Love, You Will End By Hating Those To Whom You Have Sacrificed Yourself.

Hell Is Paved With Good Intentions, Not With Bad Ones. All Men Mean Well.

People Become Attached To Their Burdens Sometimes More Than The Burdens Are Attached To Them.

Civilization Is A Disease Produced By The Practice Of Building Societies With Rotten Material.

Home Life Is No More Natural To Us Than A Cage Is Natural To A Cockatoo.

Why Should We Take Advice On Sex From The Pope? If He Knows Anything About It, He Shouldn't!

Put An Irishman On The Spit And You Can Always Get Another Irishman To Turn Him.

Ireland And The Irish

Life Contains But Two Tragedies. One Is Not To Get Your Heart's Desire; The Other Is To Get It.

Every Dream Is A Prophecy: Every Jest Is An Earnest In The Womb Of Time.

Trade Unionism Is Not Socialism. It Is The Capitalism Of The Proletariat.

You Accepted Allah Or You Had Your Throat Cut By Someone Who Did Accept Him, And Who Went To Paradise For Having Sent You To Hell.

Don't Ask Me For Promises Until I Know What I Am Promising.

People Must Not Be Forced To Adopt Me As Their Favourite Author, Even For Their Own Good.

It Is Long And Hard And Painful To Create Life: It Is Short And Easy To Steal The Life Others Have Made.

While We Have Prisons It Matters Little Which Of Us Occupy The Cells.

The Statesman Cannot Govern Without Stability Of Belief, True Or False.

Thus, I Blush To Add, You Can Not Be A Philosopher And A Good Man, Though You May Be A Philosopher And A Great One.

A Mind Of The Caliber Of Mine Cannot Derive Its Nutrient From Cows.

I Knew If I Waited Around Long Enough Something Like This Would Happen.

It Is Nearly 50 Years Since I Was Assured By A Conclave Of Doctors That If I Did Not Eat Meat I Should Die Of Starvation.

When The Horrors Of Anarchy Force Us To Set Up Laws That Forbid Us To Fight And Torture One Another For Sport, We Still Snatch At Every Excuse For Declaring Individuals Outside The Protection Of Law And Torturing Them To Our Hearts Content.

Nature Holds No Brief For The Human Experiment; It Must Stand Or Fall By Its Results.

The Heretic Is Always Better Dead. And Mortal Eyes Cannot Distinguish The Saint From The Heretic.

The Notion That Nature Does Not Proceed By Jumps Is Only One Of The Budget Of Plausible Lies That We Call Classical Education. Nature Always Proceeds By Jumps. She May Spend Twenty Thousand Years Making Up Her Mind To Jump; But When She Makes It Up At Last, The Jump Is Big Enough To Take Us Into A New Age.

All Progress Depends Upon The Unreasonable Person.

I Am A Christian. That Obliges Me To Be A Communist.

The More I See Of The Moneyed Classes, The More I Understand The Guillotine.

The Universal Regard For Money Is The One Hopeful Fact In Our Civilization.

Life Would Be Tolerable But For Its Amusements.

You Have Set Up In New York Harbor A Monstrous Idol Which You Call Liberty. The Only Thing That Remains To Complete That Monument Is To Put On Its Pedestal The Inscription Written By Dante On The Gate Of Hell: All Hope Abandon Ye Who Enter Here.

Give A Man Health And A Course To Steer, And He'll Never Stop To Trouble About Whether He's Happy Or Not.

Taxes Are The Chief Business Of A Conqueror Of The World.

The Difference Between A Lady And A Flower Girl Is Not How She Behaves, But How She’s Treated.

When A Prisoner Sees The Door Of His Dungeon Open, He Dashes For It Without Stopping To Think Where He Shall Get His Dinner Outside.

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