George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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What is the matter with universities is that the students are school children, whereas it is of the very essence of university education that they should be adults.
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I want to destroy ownership in order that possession and enjoyment may be raised to the highest point in every section of the community.
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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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Plato long ago pointed out the importance of being governed by men with sufficient sense of responsibility and comprehension of public duties to be very reluctant to undertake the work of governing.
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What's the use of money if you have to earn it.
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If pity is akin to love, gratitude is akin to the other thing.
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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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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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The function of comedy is to dispelunconsciousness by turning the searchlight of the keenest moral and intellectual analysisright on to it.
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Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force.
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When commenting on the turmoil and disorder of the world, If the other planets are inhabited, they must be using this earth as their insane asylum.
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The danger of crippling thought, the danger of obstructing the formation of the public mind by specially suppressing ... representations is far greater than any real danger that there is from such representations.
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Revelations: A curious record of the visions of a drug addict.
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Hatred is the coward's revenge for being intimidated.
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I know I began as a passion and have ended as a habit, like all husbands.
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It is necessary for the welfare of society that genius should be privileged to utter sedition, to blaspheme, to outrage good taste, to corrupt the youthful mind, and generally to scandalize one's uncles.
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Words are only postage stamps delivering the object for you to unwrap...
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For four wicked centuries the world has dreamed this foolish dream of efficiency; and the end is not yet. But the end will come.
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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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The British churchgoer prefers a severe preacher because he thinks a few home truths will do his neighbors no harm.
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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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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.
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It is a monstrous thing to force a child to learn Latin or Greek or mathematics on the ground that they are an indispensable gymnastic for the mental powers. It would be monstrous even if it were true.
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You have no right to say that I am not sincere. I have found a happiness in art that real life has never given me. I am intensely in earnest about art. There is is a magic and mystery in art that you know nothing of.