George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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I loathe the mess of mean superstitions and misunderstood prophecies which is still rammed down the throats of children under the name of Christianity.
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A sensitive boy's humiliations may be very good fun for ordinary thick-skinned grown-ups; but to the boy himself theyareso acute, so ignominious, that he cannot confess themcannot but deny them passionately.
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I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.
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No severity of punishment deters when detection is uncertain, as it always must be.
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Few of us have vitality enough to make any of our instincts imperious.
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The duke inquires contemptuously whether his gamekeeper is the equal of the Astronomer Royal; but he insists that they shall both be hanged equally if they murder him.
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Human beings are the only animals of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid.
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Gambling promises the poor what property performs for the rich-something for nothing.
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Liquor is the chloroform which enables the poor man to endure the painful operation of living.
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Kings are not born: they are made by artificial hallucination.
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Violence is the repartee of the illiterate.
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Absolute honesty is as absurd an abstraction as an absolute temperature or an absolute value.
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An asylum for the sane would be empty in America.
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All roads end at the grave, which is the gate to nothingness.
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We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
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I appeal to the chemists to discover a humane gas that will kill instantly and painlessly. In short- a gentlemanly gas deadly by all means, but humane, not cruel.
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I also made it quite clear that Socialism means equality of income or nothing, and that under socialism you would not be allowed to be poor. You would be forcibly feed, clothed, lodged, taught, and employed whether you like it or not. If it were discovered that you had not character enough to be worth all this trouble, you might possibly be executed in a kindly manner; but whilst you were permitted to live you would have to live well.
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I dislike feeling at home when I am abroad.
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Plato long ago pointed out the importance of being governed by men with sufficient sense of responsibility and comprehension of public duties to be very reluctant to undertake the work of governing.
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Why should you call me to account for eating decently? If I battened on the scorched corpses of animals, you might well ask me why I did that. Why should I be filthy and inhuman? Why should I be an accomplice in the wholesale horror and degradation of the slaughter-house?
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Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.
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I finished my first book seventy-six years ago. I offered it to every publisher on the English-speaking earth I had ever heard of. Their refusals were unanimous: and it did not get into print until, fifty years later; publishers would publish anything that had my name on it.
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Woman reduces us all to the common denominator.
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I worship you, Eve. I must have something to worship. Something quite different to myself, like you. There must be something greater than the snake.