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«We must not stay as we are, doing always what was done last time, or we shall stick in the mud. Yet neither must we undertake a new world as catastrophic Utopians, and wreck our civilization in our hurry to mend it.»
«The Indian way of life provides the vision of the natural, real way of life. We veil ourselves with unnatural masks. On the face of India are the tender expressions which carry the mark of the Creator's hand. In the face of an Indian, you can see the natural glory of life, while we have covered ourselves with an artificial cloak.»
«The apparent multiplication of gods is bewildering at the first glance, but you soon discover that they are the same GOD. There is always one uttermost God who defies personification. This makes Hinduism the most tolerant religion in the world, because its one transcendent God includes all possible gods. In fact Hinduism is so elastic and so subtle that the most profound Methodist, and crudest idolater, are equally at home with it.»
«Better a leader of Fabianism than a chorus man in parliament.»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
Fabianism, in chorus, Leader of, parliament, parliaments, the Chorus
«You are a very poor soldier: a chocolate cream soldier!»
«(Democracy is a government) of the fools, for the fools, by the fools.»
«A man learns to skate by staggering about making a fool of himself. Indeed he progressed in all things by making a fool of himself.»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
progressed, skate, staggering
«All progress is initiated by challenging current conceptions, and executed by supplanting existing institutions.»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
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challenging, conceptions, executed, existing, initiate, initiated, initiating, supplant, supplanted, supplanting, supplants
«To withhold deserved praise lest it should make its object conceited is as dishonest as to withhold payment of a just debt lest your creditor should spend the money badly.»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| About:
Praise
| Keywords:
conceited, creditor, deserved, payment, withhold
«As well consult a butcher on the value of vegetarianism as a doctor on the worth of vaccination.»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
butcher, consult, vaccination, vegetarianism
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