George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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To me the sole hope of human salvation lies in teaching Man to regard himself as an experiment in the realization of God, to regard his hands as God's hand, his brain as God's brain, his purpose as God's purpose. He must regard God as a helpless Longing, which longed him into existence by its desperate need for an executive organ.
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Even the youngest of us may be wrong sometimes.
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Democracy means the organization of society for the benefit and at the expense of everybody indiscriminately and not for the benefit of a privileged class.
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There is nothing so bad or so good that you will not find Englishmen doing it; but you will never find an Englishman in the wrong. He does everything on principle. He fights you on patriotic principles; he robs you on business principles; he enslaves you on imperial principles; he bullies you on manly principles; he supports his king on loyal principles and cuts off his king's head on republican principles.
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Undershaft: My religion? Well, my dear, I am a Millionaire. That is my religion.
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I can wait: waiting and patience mean nothing to the eternal. I gave the woman the greatest of gifts: curiosity. By that her seed has been saved from my wrath; for I also am curious; and I have waited always to see what they will do tomorrow.
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My method is to take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say, and then to say it with the utmost levity.
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You are going to let the fear of poverty govern you life and your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live.
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You must not suppose, because I am a man of letters, that I never tried to earn an honest living.
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Our natural dispositions may be good; but we have been badly brought up, and are full of anti-social personal ambitions and prejudices and snobberies. Had we not better teach our children to be better citizens than ourselves? We are not doing that at present. The Russians are. That is my last word. Think over it.
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Have you ever met a man of good character where women are concerned?
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I am enclosing two tickets to the first night of my new play; bring a friend... if you have one.
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The Italians must allow us to slaughter the Momands, because, if we do not kill the warlike hillmen, they will kill us. And we must allow the Italians to slaughter the Danakils for the same reason.
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This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap; the being a force of Nature instead of a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy.
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Sexually,Woman is Nature's contrivance for perpetuating its highest achievement.
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Tradition will accustom people to any atrocity...
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We learn from history that we learn nothing from history.
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I never expect a soldier to think.
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An American has no sense of privacy. He does not know what it means. There is no such thing in the country.
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All great art and literature is propaganda.
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We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.
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When we want to read of the deeds that are done for love, whither do we turn? To the murder column.
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In your dread of dictators you established a state of society in which every ward boss is a dictator, every private employer a dictator, every financier a dictator, all with the livelihood of the workers at his mercy, and no public responsibility.
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Those who do not know how to live must make a merit of dying.