George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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You cannot have power for good without having power for evil too. Even mother's milk nourishes murderers as well as heroes.
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I have a strong feeling that I shall be glad when I am dead and done for - scrapped at last to make room for somebody better, cleverer, more perfect than myself.
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My own education has been entirely controversial: that is why I know what I am writing about; and appear eccentric to dogmatically educated Old School Ties whose heads are stuffed with obsolete shibboleths.
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Life is a constant becoming: all stages lead to the beginning of others.
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Physically there is nothing to distinguish human society from the farm-yard except that children are more troublesome and costly than chickens and calves and that men and women are not so completely enslaved as farm stock.
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The haughty American nation ... makes the Negro clean its boots and then proves the moral and physical inferiority of the Negro by the fact that he is a bootblack.
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Being a mother means that your heart is no longer yours; it wanders wherever your children do...
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The Nazi movement is in many respects one which has my warmest sympathy.
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I like a bit of a mongrel myself, whether it's a man or a dog; they're the best for every day.
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Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.
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Opera is when a tenor and soprano want to make love, but are prevented from doing so by a baritone.
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As well consult a butcher on the value of vegetarianism as a doctor on the worth of vaccination.
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The world is populated in the main by people who should not exist...
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Compassion is the fellow-feeling of the unsound.
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Words are only postage stamps delivering the object for you to unwrap...
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Cruelty must be whitewashed by a moral excuse, and pretense of reluctance.
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If associations to control burglary and murder were tolerated we should take it for granted that the members should all be burglers and murderers.
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The art of government is the organisation of idolatry.
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Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended.
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Some of the things Mussolini has done, and some that he is threatening to do go further in the direction of Socialism than the English Labour Party could yet venture if they were in power.'
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Nothing is worth doing unless the consequences may be serious.
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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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Gardening is the only unquestionably useful job.
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Emotional excitement reaches men through tea, tobacco, opium, whisky, and religion.