Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if the... -George Bernard Shaw

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Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.

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You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race....
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it....
Parentage is a very important profession, but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interest of the children....
I dislike feeling at home when I am abroad....
The British soldier can stand up to anything except the British War Office....
Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous....
If women were particular about men's characters, they would never get married at all....
Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men's imperfections, and conceal your own....
Old men are dangerous: it doesn't matter to them what is going to happen to the world....
Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power....

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Negroes must be free in order to be equal, and they must be equal in order to be free... Men cannot win freedom unless they win equality. They cannot ...
The Beatles were from Liverpool. It's a hard town. The Stones weren't the hard men. They just dressed up. The Beatles were the hard men....
Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good....
It is not because angels are holier than men or devils that makes them angels, but because they do not expect holiness from one another, but from God ...
I've always believed that no officer's life, regardless of rank, is of such great value to his country that he should seek safety in the rear... Offic...
More men fail through lack of purpose than lack of talent....
While civilization has been improving our houses, it has not equally improved the men who are to inhabit them. It has created palaces, but it was not ...
Politics is the diversion of trivial men who, when they succeed at it, become important in the eyes of more trivial men....
Those who excel in virtue have the best right of all to rebel, but then they are of all men the least inclined to do so....
Women may fall when there's no strength in men....