George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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Nobody could stand an eternity of Heaven.
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Indifference is the essence of inhumanity.
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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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It’s not about the budget; it’s about the power...So will the attack on unions succeed? I don’t know. But anyone who cares about retaining government of the people by the people should hope that it doesn’t.
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Where equality is undisputed, so also is subordination.
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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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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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We are not taught to think decently on sex subjects, and consequently we have no language for them except indecent language.
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I don't believe in morality. I'm a disciple of Bernard Shaw.
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Therefore my tax-payer, resign yourself to this: that we may fight bravely, fight hard, fight long, fight cunningly, fight recklessly, fight in a hundred and fifty ways, but we cannot fight cheaply.
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Christmas is forced upon a reluctant and disgusted nation by the shopkeepers and the press; on its own merits it would wither and shrivel in the fiery breath of universal hatred.
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Whisky is liquid sunshine.
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If you do things merely because you think some other fool expects you to do them, and he expects you to do them because he thinks you expect him to expect you to do them, it will end in everybody doing what nobody wants to do, which is in my opinion a silly state of things.
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What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.
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Nobody can live in society without conventions. The reason why sensible people are as conventional as they can bear to be is that conventionality saves so much time and thought and trouble and social friction of one sort or another that it leaves them much more leisure time for freedom than unconventionality does.
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Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
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In gambling the many must lose in order that the few may win.
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All Artists are Anarchists.
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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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Greatness is one of the sensations of littleness...
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Morals are a luxury of the rich.
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It is very doubtful whether man is enough of a political animal to produce a good, sensible, serious and efficient constitution. All the evidence is against it.
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Happiness and beauty are by-products. Folly is the direct pursuit of happiness and beauty.
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I am giving you examples of the fact that this creature man, who in his own selfish affairs is a coward to the backbone, will fight for an idea like a hero. . . . I tell you, gentlemen, if you can shew a man a piece of what he now calls God's work to do, and what he will later call by many new names, you can make him entirely reckless of the consequences to himself personally.