George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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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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No question is so difficult to answer as that to which the answer is obvious.
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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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The notion that disarmament can put a stop to war is contradicted by the nearest dogfight.
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He who has never hoped can never despair...
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If all the statisticians in the world were laid head to toe, they wouldn't be able to reach a conclusion
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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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There is no subject on which more dangerous nonsense is talked and thought than marriage.
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Man is the only animal of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid...There is no harm in a well-fed lion. It has no ideals, no sect, no party.
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The only time my education was interrupted was when I was in school.
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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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We're human beings we are - all of us - and that's what people are liable to forget. Human beings don't like peace and goodwill and everybody loving everybody else. However much they may think they do, they don't really because they're not made like that. Human beings love eating and drinking and loving and hating. They also like showing off, grabbing all they can, fighting for their rights and bossing anybody who'll give them half a chance.
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I really don't think I could consent to go to Heaven if I thought there were no animals there.
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Justice is justice though it's always delayed and finally done only by mistake.
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All young women begin by believing they can change and reform the men they marry. They can't.
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I find it easy to forgive the man who invented a devilish instrument like dynamite, but how can one ever forgive the diabolical mind that invented the Nobel Prize in Literature?
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Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
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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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Of all the anti-social vested interests the worst is the vested interest in ill-health.
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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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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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I can't turn your soul on. Leave me those feelings; and you can take away the voice and the face. They are not you.
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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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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.