George Bernard Shaw - Major Barbara (1905)

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At present there is not a single credible established religion in the world.

George Bernard Shaw
The faults of the burglar are the qualities of the financier: the manners and habits of a duke would cost a city clerk his situation.

George Bernard Shaw
I am a sort of collector of religions: and the curious thing is that I find I can believe in them all.

George Bernard Shaw
You cannot have power for good without having power for evil too. Even mother's milk nourishes murderers as well as heroes.

George Bernard Shaw
Nobody can say a word against Greek: it stamps a man at once as an educated gentleman.

George Bernard Shaw
Undershaft: My religion? Well, my dear, I am a Millionaire. That is my religion.

George Bernard Shaw
It is not the sale of my soul that troubles me: I have sold it too often to care about that. I have sold it for a professorship. I have sold it for an income. … What is all human conduct but the daily and hourly sale of our souls for trifles?

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Cusins is a very nice fellow, certainly: nobody would ever guess that he was born in Australia.

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I can't talk religion to a man with bodily hunger in his eyes.

George Bernard Shaw
The universal regard for money is the one hopeful fact in our civilization. Money is the most important thing in the world. It represents health, strength, honor, generosity and beauty.... Not the least of its virtues is that it destroys basic people as certainly as it fortifies and dignifies noble people.

George Bernard Shaw