George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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Every man deserves to be judged in the context of his times.
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I try to follow his example, not to imitate him.
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The notion that inspiration is something that happened thousands of years ago, and was then finished and done with. . . the theory that God retired from business at that period and has not been heard from since, is as silly as it is blasphemous.
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Time enough to think of the future when you haven't any future to think of.
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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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If you cannot attain knowledge without torturing a dog, you must do without knowledge.
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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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You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
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Virtue is insufficient temptation.
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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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Keep away from books and from men who get their ideas from books, and your own books will always be fresh.
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Unbounded hopes were placed on each successive extension of the electoral franchise, culminating in the enfranchisement of women.These hopes have been disappointed, because the voters, male and female, being politically untrained and uneducated, have (a) no grasp of constructive measures; (b) loathe taxation as such; (c) dislike being governed at all; and (d) dread and resent any extension of official interference as an encroachment on their personal liberty.
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Treat a friend as a person who may someday become your enemy; an enemy as a person who may someday become your friend.
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It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
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If 'Pygmalion' is not good enough for your friends with its own verbal music, their talent must be altogether extraordinary.
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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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Don't think you can frighten me by telling me that I am alone. France is alone. God is alone. And the loneliness of God is His strength.
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Trade unionism is not socialism. It is the capitalism of the proletariat.
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I hope you have lost your good looks, for while they last any fool can adore you, and the adoration of fools is bad for the soul. No, give me a ruined complexion and a lost figure and sixteen chins on a farmyard of Crow's feet and an obvious wig. Then you shall see me coming out strong.
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People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it.
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Fine art is the subtlest, the most seductive, the most effective instrument of moral propaganda in the world, excepting only the example of personal conduct; and I waive even this exception in favor of the art of the stage, because it works by exhibiting examples of personal conduct made intelligible and moving to crowds of unobservant unreflecting people to whom real life means nothing.
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All Artists are Anarchists.
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Jesus remains unshaken as the practical man; and we stand exposed as the fools, the blunderers, the unpractical visionaries.
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Stop being Jews and start being human beings.