Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAWNever wrestle with pigs. You both get dirty and the pig likes it.
More George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
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I choose not to make a graveyard of my body for the rotting corpses of dead animals.
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You see things; you say, ‘Why?’ But I dream things that never were; and I say ‘Why not?
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Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness.
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You have learnt something. That always feels at first as if you have lost something.
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Happy is the man who can make a living by his hobby.
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Doing what needs to be done may not make you happy, but it will make you great.
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When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.
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You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.
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Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.
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Why should we take advice on sex from the pope? If he knows anything about it, he shouldn’t!
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We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.
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If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they’ll kill you.
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He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches.
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In heaven an angel is no one in particular.
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