George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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In socialism, private property is anathema, and equal distribution of income the first consideration. In capitalism, private property is cardinal, and distribution left to ensue from the play of free contract and selfish interest on that basis, no matter what anomalies it may present.
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I knew if I waited around long enough something like this would happen.
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When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.
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If the lesser mind could measure the greater as a foot-rule can measure a pyramid, there would be finality in universal suffrage. As it is, the political problem remains unsolved.
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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.
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There is only one universal passion fear.
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Revolutions have never lightened the burden of tyranny; they have only shifted it to another shoulder.
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If a woman can, by careful selection of a father and nourishment of herself, produce a citizen with efficient senses, sound organs and a good digestion, she should clearly be secured a sufficient reward for that natural service to make her willing to undertake and repeat it.
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Englishmen never will be slaves; they are free to do whatever the government and public opinion allow them.
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The longer I live, the more convinced am I that this planet is used by other planets as a lunatic asylum.
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There is at bottom only one genuinely scientific treatment for all diseases, and that is to stimulate the phagocytes.
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Well, upon my soul! You are not ashamed to stand there and confess yourself a disgusting drunkard.
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All industries are brought under the control of such people [film producers] by Capitalism. If the capitalists let themselves be seduced from their pursuit of profits to the enchantments of art, they would be bankrupt before they knew where they were. You cannot combine the pursuit of money with the pursuit of art.
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You don't get tired of muffins, but you don't find inspiration in them.
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Happy is the man who can make a living by his hobby...
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The vilest abortionist is he who attempts to mould a child's character.
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People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it.
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For the pre-Darwinian age had come to be regarded as a Dark Age in which men still believed that the book of Genesis was a standard scientific treatise, and that the only additions to it were Galileo'a demonstration of Leonardo da Vinci's simple remark that the earth is a moon of the sun, Sir Humphrey Davy's invention of the safety lamp, the discovery of electricity, the application of steam to industrial purposes, and the penny post.
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I would exchange every painting of Christ for one snapshot.
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My only policy is to profess evil and do good.
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A love affair should always be a honeymoon. And the only way to make sure of that is to keep changing the man; for the same man can never keep it up.
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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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Patriotism is a word which always commemorates a robbery.
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War can so easily be gilt with romance and heroism and solemn national duty and patriotism and the like by persons whose superficial literary and oratorical talent covers an abyss of Godforsaken folly.