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"When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty."
"What a stupendous, what an incomprehensible machine is man! Who can endure toil, famine, stripes, imprisonment and death itself in vindication of his own liberty, and the next moment . . . inflict on his fellow men a bondage, one hour of which is fraught with more misery than ages of that which he rose in rebellion to oppose."
"He said that while one would like to say that God will punish those who do such things and that people often speak in just this way it was his experience that God could not be spoken for and that men with wicked histories often enjoyed lives of comfort and that they died in peace and were buried with honor. He said is was a mistake to expect too much of justice in this world. He said that the notion that evil is seldom rewarded was greatly overspoken for if there were no advantage to it then men would shun it and how could virtue then be attached to its repudiation."
"Justice while she winks at crimes, Stumbles on innocence sometimes."
"After all, every murderer when he kills runs the risk of the most dreadful of deaths, whereas those who kill him risk nothing except promotion."
"The criminal who revolted against society hates it, and considers himself in the right; society was wrong, not he. Has he not, moreover, undergone his punishment? Accordingly he is absolved, acquitted in his own eyes. In spite of different opinions, everyone will acknowledge that there are acts which everywhere and always, under no matter what legal system, are beyond doubt criminal, and should be regarded as long as man is man."
"Woe to the man who offends a small child!"
"A Daniel come to judgment! yea a Daniel! O wise young judge how I do honor thee!"
Explore more quotes by George Bernard Shaw
"Hell is full of musical amateurs: music is the brandy of the damned. May not one lost soul be permitted to abstain?"
"No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means."
"We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future."
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