George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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If I own a large part of Scotland, I can turn the people off the land practically into the sea or across the sea. I can take women in child-bearing and throw them into the snow and leave them there. That has been done. I can do it for no better reason than I think it is better to shoot deer on the land than allow people to live on it.
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I don't know what to say about this book. The experience on which it is founded is so extraordinary, that an honest record of it should be preserved . . . But it would have driven me mad; and I am not sure that the author came out of it without a slight derangement.
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Journalists are too poorly paid in this country to know anything that is fit for publication.
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Every baby has to discover more in the first years of its life than Roger Bacon ever discovered in his laboratory.
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The conversion of Paul was no conversion at all; it was Paul who converted the religion that has raised one man above sin and death.
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I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people.
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Gentle Jesus, meek and mild' is a snivelling modern invention, with no warrant in the gospels.
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Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
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Worst of all, there is no sign of any relaxation of antisemitism. Logically it has nothing to do with Fascism. But the human raceis imitative rather than logical; and as Fascism spreads antisemitism spreads.
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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.
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There are scores of thousands of human insects who are ready at a moment's notice to reveal the Will of God on every possible subject...
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It has taken me nearly twenty years of studied self-restraint, aided by the natural decay of my faculties, to make myself dull enough to be accepted as a serious person by the British public; and I am not sure that I am not still regarded as a suspicious character in some quarters.
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Without danger I cannot be great. That is how I pay for Abel's blood. Danger and fear follow my steps everywhere. Without them courage would have no sense. And it is courage, courage, courage that raises the blood of life to crimson splendor.
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The only fundamental and possible socialism is the socialisation of the selective breeding of man.
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The moment we want to believe something, we suddenly see all the arguments for it, and become blind to the arguments against it.
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I don't know if there are men on the moon, but if there are they must be using the earth as their lunatic asylum...
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The conversion of a savage to Christianity is the conversion of Christianity to savagery.
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The real Brahms is nothing more than a sentimental voluptuary. rather tiresomely addicted to dressing himself up as Handel or Beethoven and making a prolonged and intolerable noise.
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Morality is not respectability.
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A socialist is somebody who doesn't have anything, and is ready to divide it up equally among everybody.
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You know well I couldn't bear to live with a low common man after you two; and it's wicked and cruel of you to insult me by pretending I could.
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A family is a tyranny ruled over by it's weakest member.
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No community has ever yet passed beyond the initial phases in which its pugnacity and fanaticism enabled it to found a nation, and its cupidity to establish and develop a commercial civilization.
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When men die of disease they are said to die from natural causes. When they recover (and mostly they do) the doctor gets the credit of curing them.