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"There is no such thing as moral phenomena, but only a moral interpretation of phenomena."
"Good and bad are illusions. What exists is either the presence of empathy or the lack of it. I think this should become the new, clear definition of how we see people. No more "good" and no more "bad". Those terms are highly subjective."
"Respect the hand stronger than your hand if and only if that hand is just and an honourable hand!"
"Mrs. Joe war eine sehr reinliche Hausfrau, doch sie verstand sich ausnehmend gut darauf, ihre Reinlichkeit bequemer und unertrA¤glicher zu machen, als jeder Schmutz gewesen wA¤re. Die Reinlichkeit ist der Gottesfurcht verwandt, und manche verfahren mit ihrer Religion ganz genauso."
"My concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right."
"You may judge others only according to your knowledge of yourself."
"Obscenity is a cleansing process, whereas pornography only adds to the murk."
"The humble sinner will sometimes be interpreted as one of the filthiest in the eyes of man yet immersed in the eyes of God, and this is due to the volition of honesty regarding his own corruption."
Explore more quotes by George Bernard Shaw
"We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future."
"This is true joy of life-being used for a purpose that is recognized by yourself as a mighty one ... instead of being a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy."
"An election is a moral horror, as bad as a battle except for the blood; a mud bath for every soul concerned in it."
"Why, except as a means of livelihood, a man should desire to act on the stage when he has the whole world to act in, is not clear to me."
"What a man believes may be ascertained, not from his creed, but from the assumptions on which he habitually acts."
"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."
"I finished my first book seventy-six years ago. I offered it to every publisher on the English-speaking earth I had ever heard of. Their refusals were unanimous: and it did not get into print until, fifty years later; publishers would publish anything that had my name on it."
"Give a man health and a course to steer, and he'll never stop to trouble about whether he's happy or not."
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