George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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I don't like the idea of killing my fellow creatures in order to eat their dead bodies.
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I hate the poor and look forward eagerly to their extermination.
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Experience fails to teach where there is no desire to learn.
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I have defined the 100 per cent American as 99 per cent an idiot.
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Schools and schoolmasters, as we have them today, are not popular as places of education and teachers, but rather prisons and turnkeys in which children are kept to prevent them disturbing and chaperoning their parent.
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Greatness is one of the sensations of littleness...
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The criminal law is no use to decent people.
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Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.
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We educate one another; and we cannot do this if half of us consider the other half not good enough to talk to.
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Hollywood keeps before its child audiences a string of glorified young heroes, everyone of whom is an unhesitating and violent Anarchist. His one answer to everything that annoys him or disparages his country or his parents or his young lady or his personal code of manly conduct is to give the offender a "sock" in the jaw.... My observation leads me to believe that it is not the virtuous people who are good at socking jaws.
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Rebecca West can handle a pen as brilliantly as ever I could and much more savagely.
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How you ought properly to spell 'fish' in English: 'goti' .
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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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Faith in reason as a prime motor is no longer the criterion of the sound mind, any more than faith in the Bible is the criterion of righteous intention.
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Our ideals, like the gods of old, are constantly demanding human sacrifices.
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If you cannot attain knowledge without torturing a dog, you must do without knowledge.
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Heartbreak is life educating us.
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If 'Pygmalion' is not good enough for your friends with its own verbal music, their talent must be altogether extraordinary.
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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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Vivisection is a social evil because if it advances human knowledge, it does so at the expense of human character.
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In the Middle Ages people believed that the earth was flat, for which they had at least the evidence of their senses: we believe it to be round, not because as many as 1 percent of us could give physical reasons for so quaint a belief, but because modern science has convinced us that nothing that is obvious is true, and that everything that is magical, improbable, extraordinary, gigantic, microscopic, heartless, or outrageous is scientific.
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The most tragic thing in the world is a man of genius who is not a man of honor.
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The statesman cannot govern without stability of belief, true or false.
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It is difficult, if not impossible, for most people to think otherwise than in the fashion of their own period.