The established government has no more right to call itself the state than the smoke of London has to call itself the weather.

Quote by George Bernard Shaw

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There is no subject on which more dangerous nonsense is talked and thought than marriage.

There is no subject on which more dangerous nonsense is talked and thought than marriage.

Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were...

Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were...

What is virtue but the Trade Unionism of the married?

What is virtue but the Trade Unionism of the married?

We must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that...

We must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that...

No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very...

No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very...

Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.

Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.

(Democracy is a government) of the fools, for the fools, by the fools.

(Democracy is a government) of the fools, for the fools, by the fools.

All my life, affection has been showered upon me, and every forward step I have...

All my life, affection has been showered upon me, and every forward step I have...

Animals are my friends... and I don't eat my friends.

Animals are my friends... and I don't eat my friends.

Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you...

Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you...

It is a woman's business to get married as soon as possible, and a man's...

It is a woman's business to get married as soon as possible, and a man's...

Why, except as a means of livelihood, a man should desire to act on the...

Why, except as a means of livelihood, a man should desire to act on the...

In a hospital they throw you out into the street before you are half cured,...

In a hospital they throw you out into the street before you are half cured,...

In heaven an angel is nobody in particular.

In heaven an angel is nobody in particular.

An index is a great leveller.

An index is a great leveller.

I think I should have no other mortal wants if I could always have plenty...

I think I should have no other mortal wants if I could always have plenty...

When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger...

When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger...

We are the only real aristocracy in the world: the aristocracy of money.

We are the only real aristocracy in the world: the aristocracy of money.

A man who has no office to go, to I don't care who he is,...

A man who has no office to go, to I don't care who he is,...

Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous.

Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous.