Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAWHe who can, does. He who cannot, teaches.
More George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul.
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If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.
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Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.
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When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.
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Only in books has mankind known perfect truth, love and beauty.
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It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
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The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself.
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When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.
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You’ll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
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I knew if I waited around long enough something like this would happen.
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The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and all time.
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A gentleman is one who puts more into the world than he takes out.
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There is no love sincerer than the love of food.
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Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn.
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A photographer is like a cod, which produces a million eggs in order that one may reach maturity.
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