George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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The art of government is the organisation of idolatry.
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A family is a tyranny ruled over by it's weakest member.
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Of the three official objects of our prison system: vengeance, deterrence, and reformation of the criminal, only one is achieved; and that is the one which is nakedly abominable.
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I want to be all used up when I die.
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Social progress takes effect through the replacement of all institutions by new ones; and since every institution involves the recognition of the duty of conforming to it, progress must involve the repudiation of an established duty at every step.
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For the pre-Darwinian age had come to be regarded as a Dark Age in which men still believed that the book of Genesis was a standard scientific treatise, and that the only additions to it were Galileo'a demonstration of Leonardo da Vinci's simple remark that the earth is a moon of the sun, Sir Humphrey Davy's invention of the safety lamp, the discovery of electricity, the application of steam to industrial purposes, and the penny post.
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What is virtue but the Trade Unionism of the married?
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Revelations: A curious record of the visions of a drug addict.
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I fought linotype and montype for some time because it would not justify as well as handset could be made to do; but at last, as always happens, the machine outdid the hand, and got all the best types on it.
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My rank is the highest known in Switzerland: I'm a free citizen.
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We don't bother much about dress and manners in England, because as a nation we don't dress well and we've no manners.
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The Englishmen is at his best on the links and at his worst in the Cabinet.
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I was taught when I was young that if people would only love one another, all would be well with the world. I found when I tried to put that into practice, not only were other people seldom lovable but I wasn't very lovable myself.
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I wouldn't have ate it, only I'm too lady-like to take it out of my mouth.
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If you demand my authorities for this and that, I must reply that only those who have never hunted up the authorities as I have believe that there is any authority who is not contradicted flatly by some other authority.
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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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When a lion meets another with a louder roar, the first lion thinks the last a bore.
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I become more convinced that beings from other planets are using the Earth as a lunatic asylum...
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What is any respectable girl brought up to do but to catch some rich man's fancy and get the benefit of his money by marrying him?--as if a marriage ceremony could make any difference in the right or wrong of the thing!
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A little learning is a dangerous thing, but we must take that risk because a little is as much as our biggest heads can hold.
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Nothing soothes me more after a long and maddening course of pianoforte recitals than to sit and have my teeth drilled.
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Every man is a revolutionist concerning the thing he understands. For example, every person who has mastered a profession is a skeptic concerning it, and consequently a revolutionist.
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Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family.
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I choose not to make a graveyard of my body for the rotting corpses of dead animals.