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A fashion is nothing but an induced epidemic.

A fashion is nothing but an induced epidemic.

George Bernard Shaw
Funny, Witty, Fashion

The novelties of one generation are only the resuscitated fashions of the generation before last.

George Bernard Shaw
Fashion, Generations, Lasts
George Bernard Shaw (1977). “The Portable Bernard Shaw”, Viking Adult

We cut the throat of a calf and hang it up by the heels to bleed to death so that our veal cutlet may be white; we nail geese to a board and cram them with food because we like the taste of liver disease; we tear birds to pieces to decorate our women's hats; we mutilate domestic animals for no reason at all except to follow an instinctively cruel fashion; and we connive at the most abominable tortures in the hope of discovering some magical cure for our own diseases by them.

George Bernard Shaw
Fashion, Cutting, Animal
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.294, e-artnow

Custom will reconcile people to any atrocity, and fashion will drive them to acquire any custom.

George Bernard Shaw
Fashion, People, Individuality
George Bernard Shaw (1993). “The Complete Prefaces: 1914-1929”, Viking Adult

It is difficult, if not impossible, for most people to think otherwise than in the fashion of their own period.

George Bernard Shaw
Fashion, Thinking, People
George Bernard Shaw (2015). “Saint Joan”, p.41, Read Books Ltd

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.

George Bernard Shaw
Fashion, Money, Men

Fashions, after all, are only induced epidemics.

George Bernard Shaw
Fashion, Epidemics, Clothes
1906 The Doctor's Dilemma,'Preface on Doctors: Fashions and Epidemics'.

Fashions are induced epidemics.

George Bernard Shaw
Fashion, Epidemics

Fashions are the only induced epidemics, proving that epidemics can be induced by tradesmen.

George Bernard Shaw
Fashion, Epidemics, Prove
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.404, e-artnow

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