George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me.
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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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Revelations: A curious record of the visions of a drug addict.
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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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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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In truth , mankind cannot be saved from without, by schoolmasters or any other sort of masters: it can only be lamed and enslaved by them. It is said that if you wash a cat it will never again wash itself. This may or may not be true : what is certain is that if you teach a man anything he will never learn it; and if you cure him of a disease he will be unable to cure himself the next time it attacks him.
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I know I began as a passion and have ended as a habit, like all husbands.
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My rank is the highest known in Switzerland: I'm a free citizen.
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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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I want to be all used up when I die.
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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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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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He who confuses political liberty with freedom and political equality with similarity has never thought for five minutes about either.
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It is not disbelief that is dangerous to our society; it is belief.
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Absolute honesty is as absurd an abstraction as an absolute temperature or an absolute value.
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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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As well consult a butcher on the value of vegetarianism as a doctor on the worth of vaccination.
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If we have come to think that the nursery and the kitchen are the natural sphere of a woman, we have done so exactly as English children come to think that a cage is the natural sphere of a parrot: because they have never seen one anywhere else.
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Clever and attractive women do not want to vote; they are willing to let men govern as long as they govern men.
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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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Words are only postage stamps delivering the object for you to unwrap...
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All sorts of bodily diseases are produced by half-used minds.
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A family is a tyranny ruled over by it's weakest member.
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This planet is obviously being used as an insane asylum by other planets.