"Not until he acquires European manners does..." - Quote by George Bernard Shaw
Not until he acquires European manners does the American anarchist become the gentleman who assures you that people cannot be mademoral by Act of Parliament (the truth being that it is only by Acts of Parliament that men in large communities can be made moral, even when they want to).
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“Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty; what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness.”
“A man's behaviour may be quite harmless and even beneficial, when he ismorally behaving like a scoundrel. And he may do great harm when he is morally acting on the highest principles.”
“I have defined the hundred per cent American as ninety-nine per cent an idiot.”
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“I long for truth, and yetI cannot stay from thatMy better self disowns,For a man's attentionBrings such satisfactionTo the craving in my bones.”
“There are few things more dishonorable than misleading the young.”
“Every man is to be respected as an absolute end in himself; and it is a crime against the dignity that belongs to him as a human being, to use him as a mere means for some external purpose.”
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“Culture itself is neither education nor law-making: it is an atmosphere and a heritage.”
“Crime is only the retail department of what, in wholesale, we call penal law.”
“We are not prepared to consider special category status for certain groups of people serving sentences for crime. Crime is crime is crime, it is not political”