George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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Trade unionism is not socialism. It is the capitalism of the proletariat.
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All government is cruel; for nothing is so cruel as impunity.
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God is on the side of the big battalions.
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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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One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't.
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There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.
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Treat persons who profess to be able to cure disease as you treat fortune tellers.
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He ain't a copper just look at 'is boots!
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In this world there is always danger for those who are afraid of it.
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They tell me that So-and-So, who does not write prefaces, is no charlatan. Well, I am. I first caught the ear of the British public on a cart in Hyde Park, to the blaring of brass bands,and this . . . because . . . I am a natural-born mountebank.
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Unbounded hopes were placed on each successive extension of the electoral franchise, culminating in the enfranchisement of women.These hopes have been disappointed, because the voters, male and female, being politically untrained and uneducated, have (a) no grasp of constructive measures; (b) loathe taxation as such; (c) dislike being governed at all; and (d) dread and resent any extension of official interference as an encroachment on their personal liberty.
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Old men are dangerous: it doesn't matter to them what is going to happen to the world.
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Our ideals, like the gods of old, are constantly demanding human sacrifices.
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Science never solves a problem without creating ten more.
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Money is indeed the most important thing in the world; and all sound and successful personal and national morality should have this fact for its basis.
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If you must hold yourself up to your children as an object lesson, hold yourself up as a warning and not as an example.
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The best place to find God is in a garden. You can dig for him there.
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Every Englishman believes that Handel now occupies an important position in heaven. If so, le bon Dieu must feel toward him very much as Louis Treize felt toward Richelieu.
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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.
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Remember that the progress of the world depends on your knowing better than your elders.
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Marriage is the most licentious of human institutions.
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Even to this day it is easier than it ought to be for me to get a rise out of an American by telling him something about himself which is equally true about every human being on the face of the globe. He at once resents this as a disparagement and an assertion on my part that people in other parts of the globe are not like that, and are loftily superior to such weaknesses.
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Those who understand the steam engine and the electric telegraph spend their lives in trying to replace them with something better.
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The schoolmaster is the person who takes the children off the parents' hands for a consideration. That is to say, he establishes a child prison, engages a number of employee schoolmasters as turnkeys, and covers up the essential cruelty and unnaturalness of the situation by torturing the children if they do not learn, and calling this process, which is within the capacity of any fool or blackguard, by the sacred name of Teaching.