Criminals do not die by the hands of the law. They die by the hands of other men.
George Bernard Shaw
Capitalism justified itself and was adopted as an economic principle on the express ground that it provides selfish motives for doing good, and that human beings will do nothing except for selfish motives
(Democracy is a government) of the fools, for the fools, by the fools.
The first condition of progress is the removal of censorship.
I have not wasted my life trifling with literary fools in taverns, as Johnson did, when he should have been shaking England with the thunder of his spirit
Common sense is instinct. Enough of it is genius.
People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it.
He who confuses political liberty with freedom and political equality with similarity has never thought for five minutes about either.
Home is the girl's prison and the woman's workhouse
When a heretic wishes to avoid martyrdom he speaks of Orthodoxy, True and False and demonstrates that the True is his heresy.
A doctor's reputation is made by the number of eminent men who die under his care.
The whole strength of England lies in the fact that the enormous majority of the English people are snobs.
But no public man in these islands ever believes that the Bible means what it says: he is always convinced that it says what he means; and I have no reason to hope that Mr Coote may be an exception to the rule.
You in America should trust to that volcanic political instinct which I have divined in you.
Hell is paved with good intentions, not bad ones
A photographer is like a cod, which produces a million eggs in order that one may reach maturity.
There is, on the whole, nothing on earth intended for innocent people so horrible as a school. To begin with, it is a prison. But in some respects more cruel than a prison. In a prison, for instance, you are not forced to read books written by the warders and the governor. . . .In the prison you are not forced to sit listening to turnkeys discoursing without charm or interest on subjects that they don't understand and don't care about, and therefore incapable of making you understand or care about. In a prison they may torture your body; but they do not torture your brains.
A miracle, my friend, is an event which creates faith. That is the purpose and nature of miracles.
The greatest of evils and the worst of crimes is poverty.
Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?
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