George Bernard Shaw Quotes About Morality
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You are all alike, you respectable people. You can't tell me the bursting strain of a ten-inch gun, which is a very simple matter;but you all think you can tell me the bursting strain of a man under temptation. You daren't handle high explosives; but you're all ready to handle honesty and truth and justice and the whole duty of man, and kill one another at that game. What a country! What a world!
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We should all be obliged to appear before a board every five years and justify our existence... on pain of liquidation.
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Every fool believes what his teachers tell him, and calls his credulity science or morality as confidently as his father called it divine revelation.
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Decency cannot be discussed without indecency!
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War does not decide who is right but who is left.
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All religions begin with a revolt against morality, and perish when morality conquers them.
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An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable.
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I claim to be a conscientiously immoral writer.
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Morality consists of suspecting other people of not being legally married.
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I have to live for others and not for myself: that's middle-class morality.
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The word morality, if we met it in the Bible, would surprise us as much as the word telephone or motor car.
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The confusing of marriage with morality has done more to destroy the conscience of the human race than any other single error.
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Bourgeois morality is largely a system of making cheap virtues a cloak for expensive vices.
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It's so hard to know what to do when one wishes earnestly to do right.
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It is ridiculous to say that art has nothing to do with morality. What is true is that the artist's business is not that of the policeman.
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Our laws make law impossible; our liberties destroy all freedom; our property is organized robbery; our morality an impudent hypocrisy; our wisdom is administered by inexperienced or mal-experienced dupes; our power wielded by cowards and weaklings; and our honour false in all its points. I am an enemy of the existing order for good reasons
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Money is indeed the most important thing in the world; and all sound and successful personal and national morality should have this fact for its basis.
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I'm one of the undeserving poor: that's what I am. Think of what that means to a man. It means that he's up agen middle class morality all the time.... What is middle class morality? Just an excuse for never giving me anything.
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Morality is not respectability.
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I don't believe in morality . I'm a disciple of Bernard Shaw.
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