George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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The only secrets are the secrets that keep themselves.
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Cruelty must be whitewashed by a moral excuse, and pretense of reluctance.
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I'm not a teacher: only a fellow traveler of whom you asked the way. I pointed ahead - ahead of myself as well as you.
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We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
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Schools must not become the agencies through which propaganda advocated by any section of society is spread. The method of control always a crucial problem should be in harmony with the fundamental values and principles of the states...
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Grain by grain, a loaf. Stone upon stone, a palace.
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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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I enjoy convalescence. It is the part that makes the illness worth while.
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Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.
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The wheels are turning, but the hamsters are all dead. Make it idiot-proof and someone will make a better idiot.
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Oh, come! That boot is on the other leg. 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...
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After all, the wrong road always leads somewhere.
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Marx's Kapital is not a treatise on socialism; it is a gerrymand against the bourgeoisie. It was supposed to be written for the working class, but the working man respects the bourgeoisie and wants to be a bourgeoisie. Marx never got a hold of him for a moment. It was the revolting sons of the bourgeoisie itself, like myself, that painted the flag red. The middle and upper classes are the revolutionary element in society. The proletariat is the conservative element.
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When the world goes mad, one must accept madness as sanity; since sanity is, in the last analysis, nothing but the madness on which the whole world happens to agree.
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There is no accomplishment so easy to acquire as politeness and none more profitable.
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No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense an idiot.
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A fashion is nothing but an induced epidemic.
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Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
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In an article on Bunyan lately published in the "Contemporary Review" - the only article on the subject worth reading on the subject I ever saw (yes, thank you, I am familiar with Macaulay's patronizing prattle about "The Pilgrim's Progress") etc.
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Girls, like men, want to be petted, pitied, and made much of, when they are diffident, in low spirits, or in unrequited love. These are services which the weak cannot render to the strong and which the strong will not render to the weak, except when there is also a difference of sex.
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It is nearly 50 years since I was assured by a conclave of doctors that if I did not eat meat I should die of starvation.
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The more a man possesses over and above what he uses, the more careworn he becomes.
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During the last considerable epidemic at the turn of the century, I was a member of the Health Committee of London Borough Council, and I learned how the credit of vaccination is kept up statistically by diagnosing all the revaccinated cases (of smallpox) as pustular eczema, varioloid or what not---except smallpox.
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Once the divinity we worshipped made itself visible and comprehensible, we crucified it.