George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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The notion that Nature does not proceed by jumps is only one of the budget of plausible lies that we call classical education. Nature always proceeds by jumps. She may spend twenty thousand years making up her mind to jump; but when she makes it up at last, the jump is big enough to take us into a new age.
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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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He who desires a lifetime of happiness with a beautiful woman desires to enjoy the taste of wine by keeping his mouth always full of it.
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A vegetarian is not a person who lives on vegetables, any more than a Catholic is a person who lives on cats.
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It is said that every people has the Government it deserves. It is more to the point that every Government has the electorate it deserves; for the orator of the front bench can edify or debauch an ignorant electorate at will.
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He who has never hoped can never despair...
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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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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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This souls' prison we call England.
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Faith in reason as a prime motor is no longer the criterion of the sound mind, any more than faith in the Bible is the criterion of righteous intention.
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We live in an atmosphere of shame. We are ashamed of everything that is real about us; ashamed of ourselves, of our relatives, of our incomes, of our accents, of our opinions, of our experience, just as we are ashamed of our naked skins.
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Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness.
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You're not a man, you're a machine.
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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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You can be a thorough-going Neo-Darwinian without imagination, metaphysics, poetry, conscience, or decency. For 'Natural Selection' has no moral significance: it deals with that part of evolution which has no purpose, no intelligence, and might more appropriately be called accidental selection, or better still, Unnatural Selection, since nothing is more unnatural than an accident. If it could be proved that the whole universe had been produced by such Selection, only fools and rascals could bear to live.
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In heaven an angel is nobody in particular.
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I had not achieved a success; but I provoked an uproar; and the sensation was so agreeable that I resolved to try again.
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If more than ten percent of the public likes a painting, it should be burned.
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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.
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No doubt it is easy to demostrate that property will destroy society unless society destroys it.
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I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake.
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I can think of no other edifice constructed by man as altruistic as a lighthouse. They were built only to serve.
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The most tragic thing in the world is a man of genius who is not a man of honor.
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Rising inequality isn’t about who has the knowledge; it’s about who has the power.