George Bernard Shaw Quotes About Duty
-
You are all alike, you respectable people. You can't tell me the bursting strain of a ten-inch gun, which is a very simple matter;but you all think you can tell me the bursting strain of a man under temptation. You daren't handle high explosives; but you're all ready to handle honesty and truth and justice and the whole duty of man, and kill one another at that game. What a country! What a world!
→ -
Only Lawyers and mental defectives are automatically exempt for jury duty.
→ -
Our first duty, to which every other consideration should be sacrificed, is not to be poor.
→ -
Here there is no hope, and consequently no duty, no work, nothing to be gained by praying, nothing to be lost by doing what you like. Hell, in short, is a place where you have nothing to do but amuse yourself.
→ -
The greatest evils and the worst of crimes is poverty; our first duty, a duty to which every other consideration should be sacrificed, is not to be poor.
→ -
The best bought-up children are those who have seen thier parents as they are. Hypocrisy is not the first duty of a parent.
→ -
It is the first duty of every man not to be poor.
→ -
Every step of progress means a duty repudiated, and a scripture torn up.
→ -
Plato long ago pointed out the importance of being governed by men with sufficient sense of responsibility and comprehension of public duties to be very reluctant to undertake the work of governing.
→ -
When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.
→ -
Social progress takes effect through the replacement of all institutions by new ones; and since every institution involves the recognition of the duty of conforming to it, progress must involve the repudiation of an established duty at every step.
→ -
No child should be brought up to suppose that its food and clothes come down from heaven or are miraculously conjured from empty space by papa. Loathsome as we have made the idea of duty (like the idea of work) we must habituate children to a sense of repayable obligation to the community for what they consume and enjoy, and inculcate the repayment as a point of honor.
→ -
War can so easily be gilt with romance and heroism and solemn national duty and patriotism and the like by persons whose superficial literary and oratorical talent covers an abyss of Godforsaken folly.
→
Related Authors
-
Alan Jay Lerner Lyricist -
Mark Twain Author -
William Shakespeare Poet -
Albert Einstein Theoretical Physicist -
Charles Dickens Writer -
Henrik Ibsen Playwright -
Anton Chekhov Physician -
Winston Churchill Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom -
H. G. Wells Writer -
William Butler Yeats Poet -
Romain Rolland Dramatist -
John Galsworthy Novelist -
Bertrand Russell Philosopher -
Gilbert K. Chesterton Writer -
Oscar Wilde Writer -
Samuel Beckett Novelist -
Jonathan Swift Pamphleteer -
Rudyard Kipling Writer -
Leo Tolstoy Writer -
Eugene O'Neill Playwright