Political Economy and Social Economy are amusing intellectual games; but
Vital Economy is the Philosopher Stone.
When a heretic wishes to avoid martyrdom he speaks of "Orthodoxy, True
and False" and demonstrates that the True is his heresy.
Beware of the man who does not return your blow: he neither forgives you
nor allows you to forgive yourself.
If you injure your neighbor, better not do it by halves.
Sentimentality is the error of supposing that quarter can be given or
taken in moral conflicts.
Two starving men cannot be twice as hungry as one; but two rascals can
be ten times as vicious as one.
Make your cross your crutch; but when you see another man do it, beware
of him.
SELF-SACRIFICE
Self-sacrifice enables us to sacrifice other people without blushing.
If you begin by sacrificing yourself to those you love, you will end by
hating those to whom you have sacrificed yourself.
THE END
[Transcriber's note: He spelled it 'Shakespear'. He spelled Caesar
with an ae ligature.]
End of Project Gutenberg's Maxims for Revolutionists, by George Bernard Shaw
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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