George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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Let a short Act of Parliament be passed, placing all street musicians outside the protection of the law, so that any citizen may assail them with stones, sticks, knives, pistols or bombs without incurring any penalties.
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The test of good education is seeing how it behaves in a fight.
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Heartbreak is life educating us.
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Deep knowledge is not knowledge of the thing itself, but knowledge of a thing like the thing. Then, you gain not one knowledge, but two knowledges. Of the thing. And of the original thing with is like the thing. Which is the barbarism of the privileged class.
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Happy is the man who can make a living by his hobby...
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Caesar was a man of great common sense and good taste, meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.
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To be a champion you must live like one.
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The art of manipulating public opinion, which is a necessary art for the democratic politician, and, like other arts, is sometimespractised with greater virtuosity by knaves than by honest men (who are apt to disdain it), has a different technique in different countries. For instance, in England we excel in whitewashing: in America they excel in tarring and feathering. We strain our nerves and stretch our consciences to avoid a scandal: Americans do the same to make one.
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Our ideals, like the gods of old, are constantly demanding human sacrifices.
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Whisky is liquid sunshine.
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All great truths begin as blasphemies.
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Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength and potency to accomplish something.
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Some persons, by hating vice too much, come to love men too little. Hatred is self-punishment. Hatred is the cowards revenge for being intimidated.
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The capacity of any conqueror is more likely than not to be an illusion produced by the incapacity of his adversary.
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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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But whether the risks to which liberty exposes us are moral or physical our right to liberty involves the right to run them. A man who is not free to risk his neck as an aviator or his soul as a heretic is not free at all; and the right to liberty begins, not at the age of 21 years but 21 seconds.
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A photographer is like a cod, which produces a million eggs in order that one may reach maturity.
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War does not decide who is right but who is left.
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Women have been a ghastly nuisance in my life.
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Nobody can say a word against Greek: it stamps a man at once as an educated gentlemen.
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Trade unionism is not socialism. It is the capitalism of the proletariat.
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You don't get tired of muffins, but you don't find inspiration in them.
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The statesman cannot govern without stability of belief, true or false.
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Socialists must be in favor of an aristocratic form of government. We must have the best men for the job . . . In the dictator you must have a man who has not only the power to govern but the force of character to impose himself as dictator whether you like him or not.