"No king on earth is as safe..." - Quote by George Bernard Shaw
No king on earth is as safe in his job as a Trade Union official. There is only one thing that can get him sacked; and that is drink. Not even that, as long as he doesn't actually fall down.
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“We throw the whole drudgery of creation on one sex, and then imply that no female of any delicacy would initiate any effort in that direction.”
“A man ought to be able to be fond of his wife without making a fool of himself about her.”
“It is necessary for the welfare of society that genius should be privileged to utter sedition, to blaspheme, to outrage good taste, to corrupt the youthful mind, and generally to scandalize one's uncles.”
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“No longer must government be allowed to ride roughshod, absorbing the people's wealth, usurping their rights, and crushing their spirit.”
“All censorships exist to prevent anyone from challenging current conceptions and existing institutions.”
“When the white man turns tyrant, it is his own freedom that he destroys”
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“When work is no more than a means to an end, it cannot be of high quality.”
“I always worked until I had something done and I always stopped when I knew what was going to happen next. That way I could be sure of going on the next day.”
“Men of lofty genius sometimes accomplish the most when they work least, for their minds are occupied with their ideas and the perfection of their conceptions, to which they afterwards give form.”