George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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Dogmatic toleration is nonsense: I would no more tolerate the teaching of Calvinism to children if I had power to persecute it than the British Raj tolerated suttee in India. Every civilized authority must draw a line between the tolerable and the intolerable.
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Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.
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Nietzche . . . he was a confirmed Life Force worshipper. It was he who raked up the Superman, who is as old as Prometheus; and the 20th century will run after this newest of the old crazes when it gets tired of the world, the flesh, and your humble servant.
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No age or condition is without its heroes. The least incapable general in a nation is its Cæsar, the least imbecile statesman its Solon, the least confused thinker its Socrates, the least commonplace poet its Shakespeare.
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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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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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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 way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not.
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Let no one suppose that the words doctor and patient can disguise from the parties the fact that they are employer and employee.
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An election is a moral horror, as bad as a battle except for the blood; a mud bath for every soul concerned in it.
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I object to publishers: the one service they have done me is to teach me to do without them. They combine commercial rascality with artistic touchiness and pettishness, without being either good business men or fine judges of literature.
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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 choose not to make a graveyard of my body for the rotting corpses of dead animals.
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There may be some doubt as to who are the best people to have charge of children, but there can be no doubt that parents are the worst.
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Put an Irishman on the spit and you can always get another Irishman to turn him.
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It is not disbelief that is dangerous to our society; it is belief.
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A man who desires to get married should know everything or nothing.
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Atrocities are not less atrocities when they occur in laboratories and are called medical research.
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You cannot learn to skate without making yourself ridiculous - the ice of life is slippery.
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Nowadays a parlor maid as ignorant as Queen Victoria was when she came to the throne would be classed as mentally defective.
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Though justice be Thy plea, consider this: That in the course of justice none of us should see salvation. We do pray for mercy, And that same prayer doth teach us all to render The deeds of mercy.
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The reformer for whom the world is not good enough finds himself shoulder to shoulder with him that is not good enough for the world.
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The doctor learns that if he gets ahead of the superstitions of his patients he is a ruined man; and the result is that he instinctively takes care not to get ahead of them.
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Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.