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The Collected Plays of George Bernard Shaw (Illustrated): Including Renowned Titles like Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, The Inca Of Perusalem, Macbeth Skit, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion

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The Collected Plays of George Bernard Shaw (Illustrated): Including Renowned Titles like Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, The Inca Of Perusalem, Macbeth Skit, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion Quotes

“It is quite useless to declare that all men are born free if you deny that they are born good . Guarantee a man's goodness and his liberty will take care of itself. To guarantee his freedom on condition that you approve of his moral character is formally to abolish all freedom whatsoever, as every man's liberty is at the mercy of a moral indictment which any fool can trump up against everyone who violates custom, whether as a prophet or as a rascal.”

“Never forget that if you leave your law to judges and your religion to bishops, you will presently find yourself without either law or religion.”

“If pity is akin to love, gratitude is akin to the other thing.”

“If you cannot attain knowledge without torturing a dog, you must do without knowledge.”

“You have learnt something. That always feels at first as if you had lost something.”

“Oh, well, if you want original conversations, you'd better go and talk to yourself.”

“If parents would only realize how they bore their children.”

“If I bind the future I bind my will. If I bind my will I strangle creation.”

“If Despotism failed only for want of a capable benevolent despot, what chance has Democracy, which requires a whole population of capable voters.”