George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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You accepted Allah or you had your throat cut by someone who did accept him, and who went to Paradise for having sent you to Hell.
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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 man's own self is the last person to believe in him, and is harder to cheat than the rest of the world.
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At present, intelligent people do not have their children vaccinated, nor does the law now compel them to. The result is not, as the Jennerians prophesied, the extermination of the human race by smallpox; on the contrary more people are now killed by vaccination than by smallpox.
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The degree of tolerance attainable at any moment depends on the strain under which society is maintaining its cohesion.
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When you loved me I gave you the whole sun and stars to play with. I gave you eternity in a single moment, strength of the mountains in one clasp of your arms, and the volume of all the seas in one impulse of your soul.
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In heaven an angel is nobody in particular.
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Life levels all men. Death reveals the eminent.
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It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
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Religion is a great force - the only real motive force in the world; but what you fellows don't understand is that you must get at a man through his own religion and not through yours.
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Life on board a pleasure steamer violates every moral and physical condition of healthy life except fresh air. . . . It is a guzzling, lounging, gambling, dog's life. The only alternative to excitement is irritability.
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If you cannot attain knowledge without torturing a dog, you must do without knowledge.
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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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When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work.
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There are no perfectly honorable men; but every true man has one main point of honor and a few minor ones.
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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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If you're not producing as much as you consume, or perhaps a little more, then clearly we cannot use the big organization of our society for the purpose of keeping you alive, because your life does not benefit us, and it can't be of very much use to yourself.
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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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To be a champion you must live like one.
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It is feeling that sets a man thinking, and not thought that sets him feeling.
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We should find ourselves committed to killing a great many people whom we now leave living, and to leave living a great many people whom we at present kill. We should have to get rid of all ideas about capital punishment.
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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 faults of the burglar are the qualities of the financier.
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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.