George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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We are all victims of the violence that animals suffer... their liberation is also our liberation.
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Human misery is so appalling nowadays that if we allowed ourselves to dwell on it we should only add imaginary miseries of our own to the real miseries of others without doing them any good.
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In a battle all you need to make you fight is a little hot blood and the knowledge that it's more dangerous to lose than to win.
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Security, the chief pretense of civilization, cannot exist where the worst of dangers, the danger of poverty, hangs over everyone's head.
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A tranquil woman can go on sewing longer than an angry man can go on fuming.
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A soldier is an anachronism of which we must get rid.
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Think what cowards men would be if they had to bear children. Women are altogether a superior species.
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Words are only postage stamps delivering the object for you to unwrap...
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Martyrdom is the only path to immortality that requires no talent whatsoever.
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People have pointed out evidences of personal feeling in my notices as if they were accusing me of a misdemeanor, not knowing that criticism written without personal feeling is not worth reading. It is the capacity for making good or bad art a personal matter that makes a man a critic.
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There is only one belief that can rob death of its sting and the grave of its victory. For without that you cannot be born again.
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I lay my eternal curse on whomsoever shall now or at any time hereafter make schoolbooks of my works and make me hated as Shakespeare is hated. My plays were not designed as instruments of torture. All the schools that lust after them get this answer, and will never get any other.
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The surest way to ruin a man who doesn't know how to handle money is to give him some.
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While we ourselves are the living graves of murdered animals, how can we expect any ideal living conditions on this earth?
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If a group of beings from another planet were to land on Earth - beings who considered themselves as superior to you as you feel yourself to be to other animals - would you concede them the rights over you that you assume over other animals?
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Hatred is the coward's revenge for being intimidated.
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All my life affection has been showered upon me, and every forward step I have made has been taken in spite of it.
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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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Hypocrisy ... is only bad when it is improperly used.
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A man learns to skate by staggering about and making a fool of himself. Indeed he progresses in all things by resolutely making a fool of himself.
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A photographer is like a cod, which produces a million eggs in order that one may reach maturity.
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A man ought to be able to be fond of his wife without making a fool of himself about her.
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What is really important in Man is the part of him that we do not understand. Of much of it we are not even conscious, just as we are not normally conscious of keeping up our circulation by our heart-pump, though if we neglect it we die.
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It is always necessary to overstate a cast startlingly to make people sit up and listen to it, and to frighten them into acting on it.