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Brigham Young lived to become immortal in history as an American Moses by leading his people through the wilderness into an unpromised land.

Brigham Young lived to become immortal in history as an American Moses by leading his people through the wilderness into an unpromised land.

George Bernard Shaw
Land, People, Wilderness

A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.

George Bernard Shaw
Funny, Education, Art
George Bernard Shaw (2015). “The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Lectures, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more”, p.5797, e-artnow

A succession of eye-openers each involving the repudiation of some previously held belief.

George Bernard Shaw
Education, Eye, Belief

Most of my recent plays were written in the railway train between Hatfield and Kings Cross. I write anywhere, on the top of omnibuses or wherever I may be; it is all the same to me.

George Bernard Shaw
Kings, Writing, Play

Man is the only animal which esteems itself rich in proportion to the number and voracity of its parasites.

George Bernard Shaw
Men, Animal, Numbers
George Bernard Shaw (2015). “The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more”, p.4489, e-artnow

The mathematician is fascinated with the marvelous beauty of the forms he constructs, and in their beauty he finds everlasting truth.

George Bernard Shaw
Beauty, Truth, Math

The notion that inspiration is something that happened thousands of years ago, and was then finished and done with. . . the theory that God retired from business at that period and has not been heard from since, is as silly as it is blasphemous.

George Bernard Shaw
Inspiration, Silly, Years
George Bernard Shaw (2015). “George Bernard Shaw: Collected Articles, Lectures, Essays and Letters: Thoughts and Studies from the Renowned Dramaturge and Author of Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Pygmalion, Arms and The Man, Saint Joan, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion”, p.124, e-artnow

All autobiographies are lies. I do not mean unconscious, unintentional lies: I mean deliberate lies.

George Bernard Shaw
Lying, Mean, Autobiography

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.

George Bernard Shaw
Responsibility, Boss, Revolution

A mind of the caliber of mine cannot derive its nutrient from cows.

George Bernard Shaw
Food, Wine, Mind

The reasonable man will adjust to the demands of his environment. The unreasonable man expects his environment to adjust to his own needs. Therefore, all progress depends upon the unreasonable man.

George Bernard Shaw
Men, Progress, Needs

Though all society is founded on intolerance, all improvement is founded on tolerance.

George Bernard Shaw
Tolerance, Improvement, Intolerance
George Bernard Shaw (2015). “George Bernard Shaw: The Collected Plays (Illustrated): 60 plays including Caesar and Cleopatra, Pygmalion, Saint Joan, The Apple Cart, Cymbeline, Androcles And The Lion, The Man Of Destiny, The Inca Of Perusalem and Macbeth Skit”, p.3198, e-artnow

Worst of all, there is no sign of any relaxation of antisemitism. Logically it has nothing to do with Fascism. But the human raceis imitative rather than logical; and as Fascism spreads antisemitism spreads.

George Bernard Shaw
Relaxation, Logical, Fascism

I have found, after a good deal of consideration, that the best place to seek God is in a garden. You can dig for Him here.

George Bernard Shaw
Garden, Religion, Pulling Weeds
"The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw".

A man of my spiritual intensity does not eat corpses.

George Bernard Shaw
Spiritual, Food, Men
"George Bernard Shaw: His Life and Personality". Book by Hesketh Pearson, 1942.

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.

George Bernard Shaw
Motivational, Ambition, Long
George Bernard Shaw (2015). “The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more”, p.2064, e-artnow

In the right key one can say anything. In the wrong key, nothing: the only delicate part is the establishment of the key.

George Bernard Shaw
Keys, Say Anything, Establishment

The ordinary man is an anarchist. He wants to do as he likes. He may want his neighbour to be governed, but he himself doesn't want to be governed. He is mortally afraid of government officials and policemen.

George Bernard Shaw
Men, Want, Likes

Think of the fierce energy concentrated in an acorn! You bury it in the ground, and it explodes into an oak! Bury a sheep, and nothing happens but decay.

George Bernard Shaw
Food, Thinking, Sheep

I sold flowers. I didn't sell myself. Now you've made a lady of me I'm not fit to sell anything else.

George Bernard Shaw
Flower, Pygmalion, Fit
George Bernard Shaw (2016). “Pygmalion”, p.59, Xist Publishing

You do not settle whether an argument is justified by merely showing that it is of some use. The distinction is not between useful and useless experiments but between barbarous and civilized behaviour. Vivisection is a social evil because if it advances human knowledge, it does so at the expense of human character.

George Bernard Shaw
Character, Evil, Doe

The Anti-Vivisector does not deny that physiologists must make experiments and even take chances with new methods. He says that they must not seek knowledge by criminal methods, just as they must not make money by criminal methods. He does not object to Galileo dropping cannon balls from the top of the leaning tower of Pisa; but he would object to shoving off two dogs or American tourists.

George Bernard Shaw
Dog, Animal, Two

Ireland, sir, for good or evil, is like no other place under heaven, and no man can touch its sod or breathe its air without becoming better or worse.

George Bernard Shaw
Men, Air, Becoming Better
George Bernard Shaw (2004). “John Bull's Other Island”, p.158, 1st World Publishing

There may be some doubt as to who are the best people to have charge of children, but there can be no doubt that parents are the worst.

George Bernard Shaw
Funny, Mother, Children

Until the men of action clear out the talkers we who have social consciences are at the mercy of those who have none.

George Bernard Shaw
Freedom, Men, Action
Dan Laurence, George Bernard Shaw (1999). “Plays Political: The Apple Cart, On the Rocks, Geneva”, p.253, Penguin UK

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