George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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If only for a half hour a day, a child should do something serviceable to the community...
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There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.
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A contract for better for worse is a contract that should not be tolerated.
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Those who understand the steam engine and the electric telegraph spend their lives in trying to replace them with something better.
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Both optimists and pessimists contribute to society. The optimist invents the aeroplane, the pessimist the parachute.
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Modern poverty is not the poverty that was blest in the Sermon on the Mount.
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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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The first prison I ever saw had inscribed on it CEASE TO DO EVIL: LEARN TO DO WELL; but as the inscription was on the outside, the prisoners could not read it.
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A happy family is but an earlier heaven.
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Virtue is insufficient temptation.
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Beware of the man who does not return your blow: he neither forgives you nor allows you to forgive yourself.
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Old men are dangerous: it doesn't matter to them what is going to happen to the world.
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I talk democracy to these men and women. I tell them that they have the vote, and that theirs is the kingdom and the power and the glory. I say to them You are supreme: exercise your power. They say, That's right: tell us what to do; and I tell them. I say Exercise our vote intelligently by voting for me. And they do. That's democracy; and a splendid thing it is too for putting the right men in the right place.
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Time enough to think of the future when you haven't any future to think of.
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No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.
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My only policy is to profess evil and do good.
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We must all share in the evils of the world or move to another planet.
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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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If all you are going to do in life are the things that are convenient and comfortable, the great things never get done.
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Vivisection is a social evil because if it advances human knowledge, it does so at the expense of human character.
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I find that socialism is often misunderstood by its least intelligent supporters and opponents to mean simply unrestrained indulgence of our natural propensity to heave bricks at respectable persons.
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Stop being Jews and start being human beings.
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It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
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Jesus remains unshaken as the practical man; and we stand exposed as the fools, the blunderers, the unpractical visionaries.