George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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The problem with the press is that they can't tell the difference between a bicycle crash and the end of civilization.
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Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.
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I talk democracy to these men and women. I tell them that they have the vote, and that theirs is the kingdom and the power and the glory. I say to them You are supreme: exercise your power. They say, That's right: tell us what to do; and I tell them. I say Exercise our vote intelligently by voting for me. And they do. That's democracy; and a splendid thing it is too for putting the right men in the right place.
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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 heart of an Irishman is nothing but his imagination...
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Socialism, reduced to its simplest legal and practical expression, means the complete discarding of the institution of private property by transforming it into public property, and the division of the resultant public income equally and indiscriminately among the entire population.
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The confusion of marriage with morality has done more to destroy the conscience of the human race than any other single error.
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I never accepted a knighthood because to me, is honour enough?
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Live in contact with dreams and you will get something of their charm: live in contact with facts and you will get something of their brutality. I wish I could find a country to live in where the facts were not brutal and the dreams not real.
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The surest way to ruin a man who doesn't know how to handle money is to give him some.
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It is the first duty of every man not to be poor.
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What is really important in Man is the part of him that we do not understand. Of much of it we are not even conscious, just as we are not normally conscious of keeping up our circulation by our heart-pump, though if we neglect it we die.
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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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Life at its noblest leaves mere happiness far behind; and indeed cannot endure it. Happiness is not the object of life: life has no object: it is an end in itself; and courage consists in the readiness to sacrifice happiness for an intenser quality of life.
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Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
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Patriotism is a word which always commemorates a robbery.
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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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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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The average age (longevity) of a meat eater is 63. I am on the verge of 85 and still work as hard as ever. I have lived quite long enough and am trying to die; but I simply cannot do it. A single beef-steak would finish me; but I cannot bring myself to swallow it. I am oppressed with a dread of living forever. That is the only disadvantage of vegetarianism.
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The function of comedy is to dispelunconsciousness by turning the searchlight of the keenest moral and intellectual analysisright on to it.
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You can lose a man like that by your own death, but not by his.
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What's the use of money if you have to earn it.
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The happiness of credulity is a cheap and dangerous quality.