George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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In gambling the many must lose in order that the few may win.
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Why should we take advice on sex from the pope? If he knows anything about it, he shouldn't!
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In this world there is always danger for those who are afraid of it.
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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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Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
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Riches and Art are spurious receipts for the production of Happiness and Beauty.
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It is one of the mysterious ways of Allah to make women troublesome when he makes them beautiful.
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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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You can lose a man like that by your own death, but not by his.
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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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Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire.
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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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A serious illness or a death advertises the doctor exactly as a hanging advertises the barrister who defended the person hanged.
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My way hither was the way of destiny; for I am he of whose genius you are the symbol: part brute, part woman, and part God - nothing of man in me at all. Have I read your riddle, Sphinx?
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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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I never accepted a knighthood because to me, is honour enough?
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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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If only for a half hour a day, a child should do something serviceable to the community...
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It's easier to replace a dead man than a good picture.
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Imprisonment is as irrevocable as death.
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Rising inequality isn’t about who has the knowledge; it’s about who has the power.
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The notion that persons should be safe from extermination as long as they do not commit willful murder, or levy war against the Crown, or kidnap, or throw vitriol, is not only to limit social responsibility unnecessarily, and to privilege the large range of intolerable misconduct that lies outside them, but to divert attention from the essential justification for extermination, which is always incorrigible social incompatibility and nothing else.
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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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What right has any human being to talk of bringing up a child? You do not bring up a tree or a plant. It brings itself up. You have to give it a fair chance by tilling the soil.