If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.

—George Bernard Shaw

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About George Bernard Shaw

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George Bernard Shaw (26 July 1856 – 2 November 1950) was an Irish playwright, critic, polemicist and political activist. His influence on Western theatre, culture and politics extended from the 1880s to his death and beyond. He wrote more than sixty plays, including major works such as Man and Superman...

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Joan of Arc: I hear voices telling me what to do. They come from God.
Robert: They come from your imagination.
Joan: Of course. That is how the messages of God come to us.

—George Bernard Shaw

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You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.

—George Bernard Shaw

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I am, and always have been, a revolutionary writer, because our laws make law impossible; our liberties destroy all freedom; our property is organized robbery; our morality is an impudent hypocrisy; our wisdom is administered by inexperienced or mal-experienced dupes, our power wielded by cowards and weaklings, and our honor false in all its points. I am an enemy of the existing order for good reasons.

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We don't bother much about dress and manners in England, because as a nation we don't dress well and we've no manners.

—George Bernard Shaw

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Independence? That's a middle-class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.

—George Bernard Shaw

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Every time a man expects, as he says, his money to work for him, he is expecting other people to work for him.

—Dorothy L. Sayers

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Isn't it interesting that the same people who laugh at science fiction listen to weather forecasts and economists?

—Kelvin Throop III

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Middle age is when a guy keeps turning off lights for economical rather than romantic reasons.

—Lillian Gordy Carter

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There are three social classes in America: upper middle class, middle class, and lower middle class.

—Judith Martin

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America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.

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