George Bernard Shaw Quotes About Lying
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Optimistic lies have such immense therapeutic value that a doctor who cannot tell them convincingly has mistaken his profession.
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I can't control what life did to me, but I can control how I react. Therein lies the difference.
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To me the sole hope of human salvation lies in teaching Man to regard himself as an experiment in the realization of God, to regard his hands as God's hand, his brain as God's brain, his purpose as God's purpose. He must regard God as a helpless Longing, which longed him into existence by its desperate need for an executive organ.
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To me the sole hope of human salvation lies in teaching.
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I am sorry to have to introduce the subject of Christmas. It is an indecent subject; a cruel, gluttonous subject; a drunken, disorderly subject; a wasteful, disastrous subject; a wicked, cadging, lying, filthy, blasphemous and demoralizing subject. Christmas is forced on a reluctant and disgusted nation by the shopkeepers and the press: on its own merits it would wither and shrivel in the fiery breath of universal hatred; and anyone who looked back to it would be turned into a pillar of greasy sausages.
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If there was twenty ways of telling the truth and only one way of telling a lie, the Government would find it out. It's in the nature of governments to tell lies.
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The notion that persons should be safe from extermination as long as they do not commit willful murder, or levy war against the Crown, or kidnap, or throw vitriol, is not only to limit social responsibility unnecessarily, and to privilege the large range of intolerable misconduct that lies outside them, but to divert attention from the essential justification for extermination, which is always incorrigible social incompatibility and nothing else.
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The faults of the burglar are the qualities of the financier.
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Never believe anything a writer tells you about himself. A man comes to believe in the end the lies he tells himself about himself.
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The whole strength of England lies in the fact that the enormous majority of the English people are snobs.
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You can feel nothing but a torment, and believe nothing but a lie. You will not raise your head to look at all the miracles of life that surround you; but you will run ten miles to see a fight or a death.
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The notion that Nature does not proceed by jumps is only one of the budget of plausible lies that we call classical education. Nature always proceeds by jumps. She may spend twenty thousand years making up her mind to jump; but when she makes it up at last, the jump is big enough to take us into a new age.
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History, sir, will tell lies as usual.
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Though I can make my extravaganzas appear credible, I cannot make the truth appear so.
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All autobiographies are lies. I do not mean unconscious, unintentional lies: I mean deliberate lies.
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Those who won't hesitate to vivisect, won't hesitate to lie about it as well.
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The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else.
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