George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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Science is always simple and always profound. It is only the half-truths that are dangerous.
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Man is unique in that he has plans, purpose and goals which require the need for criteria of choice. The need for ethical value is within man whose future may largely be determined by the choice he make...
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Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness.
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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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All Artists are Anarchists.
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There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.
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When our relatives are at home, we have to think of all their good points or it would be impossible to endure them.
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If you must hold yourself up to your children as an object lesson, hold yourself up as a warning and not as an example.
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Rising inequality isn’t about who has the knowledge; it’s about who has the power.
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O Lord! I don't know which is the worst of the country, the walking or the sitting at home with nothing to do.
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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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If you take too long in deciding what to do with your life, you'll find you've done it.
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Science never solves a problem without creating ten more.
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God is on the side of the big battalions.
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I don't. I look my age; and I am my age. It is the other people who look older than they are. What can you expect from people who eat corpses and drink spirits?
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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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A happy family is but an earlier heaven.
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Of all the damnable waste of human life that ever was invented, clerking is the worst.
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This souls' prison we call England.
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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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But a mother is like a broomstick or like the sun in the heavens, it does not matter which as far as one's knowledge of her is concerned: the broomstick is there and the sun is there; and whether the child is beaten by it or warmed and enlightened by it, it accepts it as a fact in nature, and does not conceive it as having had youth, passions, and weaknesses, or as still growing, yearning, suffering, and learning.
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The American Constitution, one of the few modern political documents drawn up by men who were forced by the sternest circumstances to think out what they really had to face, instead of chopping logic in a university classroom.
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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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Modern poverty is not the poverty that was blest in the Sermon on the Mount.