George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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All sorts of bodily diseases are produced by half-used minds.
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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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It is doubtless wise, when a reform is introduced, to try to persuade the British public that it is not a reform at all; but appearances must be kept up to some extent at least.
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A family is a tyranny ruled over by it's weakest member.
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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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A man ought to be able to be fond of his wife without making a fool of himself about her.
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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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It is ridiculous to say that art has nothing to do with morality. What is true is that the artist's business is not that of the policeman.
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You are all fundamentalists with a top dressing of science. That is why you are the stupidest of conservatives and reactionists in politics and the most bigoted of obstructionists in science itself. When it comes to getting a move on you are all of the same opinion: stop it, flog it, hang it, dynamite it, stamp it out.
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As 99 per cent of English authors and 100 per cent of American ones authors are just such imbeciles, managers and publishers make a practice of asking for every right the author possesses.
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Make money and the whole nation will conspire to call you a gentleman.
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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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Nobody could stand an eternity of Heaven.
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Martyrdom is the only path to immortality that requires no talent whatsoever.
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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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A soldier is an anachronism of which we must get rid.
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We are all victims of the violence that animals suffer... their liberation is also our liberation.
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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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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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Wise kings wear shabby clothes, and leave the gold lace to the drum major.
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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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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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We must always think about things, and we must think about things as they are, not as they are said to be.
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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.