George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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Any man who is not a communist at the age of twenty is a fool. Any man who is still a communist at the age of thirty is an even bigger fool.
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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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The Nazi movement is in many respects one which has my warmest sympathy.
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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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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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The only fundamental and possible socialism is the socialisation of the selective breeding of man.
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If you injure your neighbour, better not do it by halves.
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Gardening is the only unquestionably useful job.
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Get out of my way; for I won't stop for you.
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The best reformers the world has ever seen are those who commence on themselves.
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Geniuses are horrid, intolerant, easily offended, sleeplessly self-conscious men, who expect their wives to be angels with no further business in life than to pet and worship their husbands. Even at the best they are not comfortable men to live with; and a perfect husband is one who is perfectly comfortable to live with.
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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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Compassion is the fellow-feeling of the unsound.
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Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended.
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The medical profession is a conspiracy to hide its own shortcomings. No doubt the same may be said of all professions. They are all conspiracies against the laity... Until there is a practicable alternative to blind trust in the doctor, the truth about the doctor is so terrible that we dare not face it.
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I make no vows. I take my chance. … It means that I fear certainty as you fear uncertainty. It means that nothing is certain but uncertainty. If I bind the future I bind my will. If I bind my will I strangle creation.
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The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not.
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I enjoy convalescence. It is the part that makes the illness worth while.
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The man with a toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty-stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man.
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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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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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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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Atrocities are not less atrocities when they occur in laboratories and are called medical research.
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A socialist is somebody who doesn't have anything, and is ready to divide it up equally among everybody.