George Bernard Shaw on crime
George Bernard Shaw97 quotes“Criminals do not die by the hands of the law. They die by the hands of other men.”
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The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
George Bernard ShawGeorge Bernard Shaw My religious convictions and scientific views cannot at present be more specifically defined than as those of a believer in creative evolution.
George Bernard ShawGeorge Bernard Shaw A gentleman is one who puts more into the world than he takes out.
George Bernard ShawGeorge Bernard Shaw A gentleman is one who puts more into the world than he takes out.
George Bernard ShawGeorge Bernard Shaw I do not know what I think until I write it.
George Bernard ShawGeorge Bernard Shaw Liquor is the chloroform which enables the poor man to endure the painful operation of living.
George Bernard ShawGeorge Bernard Shaw When a thing is funny, search it carefully for a hidden truth.
George Bernard ShawGeorge Bernard Shaw It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling.
George Bernard ShawGeorge Bernard Shaw Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
George Bernard ShawGeorge Bernard Shaw Whisky is liquid sunshine.
George Bernard ShawGeorge Bernard Shaw The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and all time.
George Bernard ShawGeorge Bernard Shaw The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.
George Bernard ShawGeorge Bernard Shaw We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.
George Bernard ShawGeorge Bernard Shaw The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not.
George Bernard ShawGeorge Bernard Shaw If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.
George Bernard ShawGeorge Bernard Shaw If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.
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JuvenalJuvenal War is mankind’s most tragic and stupid folly; to seek or advise its deliberate provocation is a black crime against all men.
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Hannah ArendtHannah Arendt When all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and the very magnitude of the crime the best excuse for doing nothing.
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