689 ordspråk av George Bernard Shaw

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George Bernard Shaw föddes den July 26th 1856 och dog den 2 November 1950 - 1925 Nobel Prize for Literature.
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 The art of government is the organization of idolatry. The bureaucracy consists of functionaries; the aristocracy, of idols; the democracy, of idolaters. The populace cannot understand the bureaucracy: it can only worship the national idols.

 The best place to find God is in a garden. You can dig for him there.

 The best reformers the world has ever seen are those who commence on themselves

 The British soldier can stand up to anything except the British War Office.

 The camera can represent flesh so superbly that, if I dared, I would never photograph a figure without asking that figure to take its clothes off.

 The chief objection of playing wind instruments is that it prolongs the life of the player

 The churches must learn humility as well as teach it.

 The conversion of Paul was no conversion at all; it was Paul who converted the religion that has raised one man above sin and death

 The doctor learns that if he gets ahead of the superstitions of his patients he is a ruined man; and the result is that he instinctively takes care not to get ahead of them.

 The early Christian rules of life were not made to last, because the early Christians did not believe that the world itself was going to last.

 The earth is still bursting with the dead bodies of the victors.

 The English are not very spiritual people, so they invented cricket to give them some idea of eternity

 The English have no respect for their language, and will not teach their children to speak it.

 The established government has no more right to call itself the state than the smoke of London has to call itself the weather.

 The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact than a drunken man is happier than a sober one


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