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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Life is not meant to be easy, my child; but take courage: it can be delightful.
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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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He ain't a copper just look at 'is boots!
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Democracy is a word all public men use and none understand.
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Our political experiment of democracy, the last refuge of cheap misgovernment.
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I was convinced that Ceylon is the cradle of the human race because everybody there looks an original. All other nations are obviously mass produced.
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Though all society is founded on intolerance, all improvement is founded on tolerance.
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Socialism never arises in the earlier phases of capitalism, as, for instance, among the pioneers of civilisation in a country where there is plenty of land available for private appropriation by the last comer.
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Whisky is liquid sunshine.
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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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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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The doctor learns that if he gets ahead of the superstitions of his patients he is a ruined man; and the result is that he instinctively takes care not to get ahead of them.
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There is no satisfaction in hanging a man who does not object to it.
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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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Life would be tolerable but for its amusements.
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If the wicked flourish and the fittest survive, Nature must be the god of rascals.
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I'm an atheist and I thank God for it.
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There are only two classes in good society in England: the equestrian classes and the neurotic classes.
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Bourgeois morality is largely a system of making cheap virtues a cloak for expensive vices.
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Indifference is the essence of inhumanity.
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Newspaper : A device unable to distinguish between a bicycle accident and the collapse of civilisation.
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There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it.
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You're only a beginner; and what you think is love, and interest, and all that, is not real love at all: three quarters of it is only unsatisfied curiosity.