George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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We are members one of another; so that you cannot injure or help your neighbor without injuring or helping yourself.
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The Anti-Vivisector does not deny that physiologists must make experiments and even take chances with new methods. He says that they must not seek knowledge by criminal methods, just as they must not make money by criminal methods. He does not object to Galileo dropping cannon balls from the top of the leaning tower of Pisa; but he would object to shoving off two dogs or American tourists.
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Jesus remains unshaken as the practical man; and we stand exposed as the fools, the blunderers, the unpractical visionaries.
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All sorts of bodily diseases are produced by half-used minds.
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It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.
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A soldier is an anachronism of which we must get rid.
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Captain Shotover: How much does your soul eat? Ellie: Oh, a lot. It eats music and pictures and books and mountains and lakes and beautiful things to wear and nice people to be with.
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Fashions are the only induced epidemics, proving that epidemics can be induced by tradesmen.
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It's just as unpleasant to get more than you bargain for as to get less.
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The truth sticks in our throats with all the sauces it is served with: it will never go down until we take it without any sauce at all.
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Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.
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Until the men of action clear out the talkers we who have social consciences are at the mercy of those who have none.
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We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.
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What's the use of money if you have to earn it.
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Words are only postage stamps delivering the object for you to unwrap...
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We should find ourselves committed to killing a great many people whom we now leave living, and to leave living a great many people whom we at present kill. We should have to get rid of all ideas about capital punishment.
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The Nazi movement is in many respects one which has my warmest sympathy.
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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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You do not settle whether an argument is justified by merely showing that it is of some use. The distinction is not between useful and useless experiments but between barbarous and civilized behaviour.
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I never climbed any ladder: I have achieved eminence by sheer gravitation.
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The test of a man or woman's breeding is how they behave in a quarrel.
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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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Treat a friend as a person who may someday become your enemy; an enemy as a person who may someday become your friend.
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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.