George Bernard Shaw Quotes

The conversion of a savage to Christianity is the conversion of Christianity to savagery.

George Bernard Shaw

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• It's because I have no sense of shame that I'm always willing to give things a go: I've ridden horses naked into the sea, I've climbed rocks, all kinds of things.

  

  Abbey Lee Kershaw
  • Always
  • Sea
  • Rocks

• The artist is a receptacle for emotions derived from anywhere: from the sky, from the earth, from a piece of paper, from a passing figure, from a spider’s web. This is a spider's web. This is why one must not make a distinction between things. For them there are no aristocratic quarterings. One must take things where one finds them.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Why
  • Earth
  • Sky

• A notable scheme has occurred to me.

  

  Jack Vance

• This is it no more fun the death of all joy has come.

  

  Jim Morrison The Doors
  • Fun
  • Death
  • Joy

• Ἀψυχίᾳ γὰρ γλῶσσαν ἁρπάζει φόβος.

  

  Aeschylus

• Fear is the foundation of most governments; but it is so sordid and brutal a passion, and renders men in whose breasts it predominates so stupid and miserable, that Americans will not be likely to approve of any political institution which is founded on it.

  

  John Adams
  • Men
  • Political
  • Fear

• Human rights is the soul of our foreign policy, because human rights is the very soul of our sense of nationhood.

  

  Jimmy Carter
  • Soul

• Christ illustrates the purport of life as He descends from His transfiguration to toil, and goes forward to exchange that robe of heavenly brightness for the crown of thorns.

  

  Edwin Hubbell Chapin
  • Life

• The fact of the matter is, you don't give up what's natural. Anything I've fantasized about, I've done.

  

  Ray Charles
  • Up
  • Done

• You see people who are 19 or 20 years old and they don't even know who The Who is. It's like, where have you been? Justin Timberlake? C'mon. Where are the roots?

  

  Dustin Diamond
  • People

• I don't often go to curator or artist walk-throughs of exhibitions. For a critic, it feels like cheating. I want to see shows with my own eyes, making my own mistakes, viewing exhibitions the way most of their audience sees them.

  

  Jerry Saltz
  • Eyes
  • Cheating

• I have a feeling, one of those gut feelings, that I'll make pretty good movies the rest of my life.

  

  Paul Thomas Anderson
  • Life
  • Good
  • Pretty

• There's nothing more mundane than sitting across from a celebrity in a sterile gray conference room. But when the star sitting across from you is Taraji Penda Henson, you are being treated to a master class in the art of the hustle.

  

  Janet Mock
  • Art
  • Star
  • Celebrity

• My fashion resolution for 2015 is to continue to be inspired by all of the great designers of the past and present while keeping true to my style and myself.

  

  Bella Hadid
  • Great
  • True
  • Past

• I don't want to do the same thing over and over again.

  

  Dylan Moran

• Don't believe everything you think - or feel.

  

  Anna Chancellor
  • Believe

• The saying of old Antigonus, who when he was to fight at Andros, and one told him, 'The enemy's ships are more than ours,' replied, 'For how many then wilt thou reckon me?'

  

  Plutarch
  • Enemy

• I never yet have known the Spirit of God to work where the Lord's people were divided.

  

  Dwight L. Moody
  • People
  • Work
  • God

• I really, really don't think that, outside of maybe some pink wigs, [that] there's anything that separates me from every other woman in America.

  

  Nicki Minaj
  • Thinking
  • America
  • Pink

• Civil liberties victories never stay won, but must be fought for over and over again.

  

  Ira Glasser
  • Fight
  • Victories
  • Liberties

• I think a domestic situation can change you and your attitudes. I suppose if you did get a bit content, then you might not write savage lyrics.

  

  Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings
  • Thinking
  • Writing
  • Attitude

• Because of the open nature of polytheism, there was virtually no such thing as “conversion.” Anyone who chose to begin worshiping a new god was welcome to do so and was not required or expected to leave behind any previous practices of worship or make an exclusive commitment to this one deity.

  

  Bart Ehrman
  • God
  • Conversion
  • Polytheism

• I thought it out this very day, Noon upon the clock, A man may put pretence away Who leans upon a stick, May sing, and sing until he drop, Whether to maid or hag.

  

  William Butler Yeats
  • Men
  • Clock
  • Aging

• The conversion of a savage to Christianity is the conversion of Christianity to savagery.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Savage
  • Conversion
  • Cristianity