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Civilized society is one huge bourgeoisie: no nobleman dares now shock his greengrocer.


George Bernard Shaw

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TERRY TEACHOUT I am enclosing two tickets to the first night of my new play; bring a friend ... if you have one." WINSTON S. CHURCHILL I am enclosing two tickets to the first night of my new play; bring a friend ... if you have one." GEORGE BERNARD SHAW A civilized society that can no longer feel outrage, can no longer be civilized.
SOURCE UNKNOWN The problem with communication…is the illusion that is has been accomplished.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW Never wrestle with pigs. You both get dirty and the pig likes it.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW The very first day we were there, ... I started getting notes in my box to call this Bernard Shaw.
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SAMUEL BUTLER (1) War does not determine who is right — only who is left.
ANONYMOUS Redemption is possible, and it is the measure of a civilized society.
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MAX BEERBOHM Yet we can maintain a free society only if we recognize that in a free society no one can win all th...
RICHARD MILHOUS NIXON Yet we can maintain a free society only if we recognize that in a free society no one can win all th...
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JOHN MILLINGTON SYNGE We-Lyn Shaw, Norgie Hester and myself-went to see the inauguration the year George Bush was sworn in...
SHIRLEY LEINWAND To get into the best society nowadays, one has either to feed people, amuse people, or shock people.
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PETER HAMM We cannot be a civilized society if these terrorists are going to have their ways.
MATT MEAD Hush! Hush! Whisper who dares! [Christopher Robin is saying his prayers]
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MARK SKOUSEN We had that tough one against Shaw. We just kind of went back to doing what we do.
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DREW WEATHERFORD My girlfriend is in shock right now.
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JIDDU KRISHNAMURTI Virtually every civilized society today holds sacred the right to peaceably bury their dead.
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GEORGE BERNARD SHAW Morality is suspecting other people of not being legally married.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW A miracle is an event which creates faith. That is the purpose and nature of miracles. Frauds deceiv...
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they wa...
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW Put an Irishman on the spit and you can always get another Irishman to turn him.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW I showed my appreciation of my native land in the usual Irish way: by getting out of it as soon as I...
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW The seven deadly sins... food, clothing, firing, rent, taxes, respectability and children. Nothing c...
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW The greatest evils and the worst of crimes is poverty; our first duty, a duty to which every other c...
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW The camera can represent flesh so superbly that, if I dared, I would never photograph a figure witho...
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW The philosopher is Nature's pilot. And there you have our difference: to be n hell is to drift: to b...
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW A pessimist is a man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW If there was nothing wrong in the world there wouldn't be anything for us to do.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW Patriotism is a pernicious, psychopathic form of idiocy.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were ...
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW You'll never have a quiet world until you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW Find enough clever things to say, and you're a Prime Minister; write them down and you're a Shakespe...
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW Independence? That's middle-class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us o...
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