George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force.
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The happiness of credulity is a cheap and dangerous quality.
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An Irishman's imagination never lets him alone, never convinces him, never satisfies him; but it makes him that he can't face reality nor deal with it nor handle it nor conquer it: he can only sneer at them that do, and be 'agreeable to strangers', like a good-for-nothing woman on the streets.
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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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Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman, but believing what he read made him mad.
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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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Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength and potency to accomplish something.
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There is at bottom only one genuinely scientific treatment for all diseases, and that is to stimulate the phagocytes.
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The notion that the colonel need be a better man than the private is as confused as the notion that the keystone need be stronger than the coping stone.
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A happy family is but an earlier heaven.
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We should all be obliged to appear before a board every five years and justify our existence... on pain of liquidation.
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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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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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Women are not angels. They are as foolish as men in many ways; but they have had to devote themselves to life whilst men have had to devote themselves to death; and that makes a vital difference in male and female religion. Women have been forced to fear whilst men have been forced to dare: the heroism of a woman is to nurse and protect life, and of a man to destroy it and court death.
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I'm only a beer teetotaler, not a champagne teetotaler. I don't like beer.
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If I were a woman, I'd simply refuse to speak to any man or do anything for men until I'd got the vote.
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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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You don't learn to hold your own in the world by standing on guard, but by attacking, and getting well hammered yourself.
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The most revolutionary invention of the Nineteenth Century was the artificial sterilization of marriage.
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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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Home life is no more natural to us than a cage is natural to a cockatoo.
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Such poverty as we have today in all our great cities degrades the poor, and infects with its degradation the whole neighborhood in which they live. And whatever can degrade a neighborhood can degrade a country and a continent and finally the whole civilized world, which is only a large neighborhood.
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But whether the risks to which liberty exposes us are moral or physical our right to liberty involves the right to run them. A man who is not free to risk his neck as an aviator or his soul as a heretic is not free at all; and the right to liberty begins, not at the age of 21 years but 21 seconds.
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The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.