George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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All censorships exist to prevent anyone from challenging current conceptions and existing institutions. All progress is initiated by challenging current conceptions, and executed by supplanting existing institutions. Consequently, the first condition of progress is the removal of censorship.
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Life is not meant to be easy, my child; but take courage: it can be delightful.
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I never climbed any ladder: I have achieved eminence by sheer gravitation.
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I have defined the 100 per cent American as 99 per cent an idiot.
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Every doctor will allow a colleague to decimate a whole countryside sooner than violate the bond of professional etiquette by giving him away.
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Laws, religions, creeds, and systems of ethics, instead of making society better than its best unit, make it worse than its average unit, because they are never up to date.
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The only person who acts sensibly is my tailor. He takes my measure anew every time he sees me. Everyone else goes by their old measurements.
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In literature the ambition of the novice is to acquire the literary language; the struggle of the adept is to get rid of it.
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Nothing is more dangerous than a poor doctor: not even a poor employer or a poor landlord.
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If the wicked flourish and the fittest survive, Nature must be the god of rascals.
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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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Remember that the progress of the world depends on your knowing better than your elders.
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Though all society is founded on intolerance, all improvement is founded on tolerance.
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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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The most tragic thing in the world is a man of genius who is not a man of honor.
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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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A married man is a man with a past, while a bachelor is a man with a future.
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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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As long as more people will pay admission to a theater to see a naked body than to see a naked brain, the drama will languish.
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Wicked people means people who have no love: therefore, they have no shame. They have the power to ask love because the don't need it: they have the power to offer it because they have none to give.
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The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
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Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire.
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The things most people want to know about are usually none of their business.
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The confusion of marriage with morality has done more to destroy the conscience of the human race than any other single error.