George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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Fine art is the only teacher except torture.
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Old men are dangerous: it doesn't matter to them what is going to happen to the world.
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In socialism, private property is anathema, and equal distribution of income the first consideration. In capitalism, private property is cardinal, and distribution left to ensue from the play of free contract and selfish interest on that basis, no matter what anomalies it may present.
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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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You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
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I no longer desire happiness: life is nobler than that.
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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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Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
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Unbounded hopes were placed on each successive extension of the electoral franchise, culminating in the enfranchisement of women.These hopes have been disappointed, because the voters, male and female, being politically untrained and uneducated, have (a) no grasp of constructive measures; (b) loathe taxation as such; (c) dislike being governed at all; and (d) dread and resent any extension of official interference as an encroachment on their personal liberty.
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If you say that God is good, great, blessed, wise or any such thing, the starting point is this : God is.
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In gambling the many must lose in order that the few may win.
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All Artists are Anarchists.
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Better see rightly on a pound a week than squint on a million.
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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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War does not decide who is right but who is left.
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Keep away from books and from men who get their ideas from books, and your own books will always be fresh.
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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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That is the injustice of a woman's lot. A woman has to bring up her children; and that means to restrain them, to deny them things they want, to set them tasks, to punish them when they do wrong, to do all the unpleasant things. And then the father, who has nothing to do but pet them and spoil them, comes in when all her work is done and steals their affection from her.
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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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I have to live for others and not for myself: that's middle-class morality.
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Those who talk most about the blessings of marriage and the constancy of its vows are the very people who declare that if the chain were broken and the prisoners left free to choose, the whole social fabric would fly asunder. You cannot have the argument both ways. If the prisoner is happy, why lock him in? If he is not, why pretend that he is?
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A dinner! How horrible! I am to be made the pretext for killing all those wretched animals and birds, and fish! Thank you for nothing. Now if it were to be a fast instead of a feast; say a solemn three days' abstention from corpses in my honour, I could at least pretend to believe that it was disinterested. Blood sacrifices are not in my line...
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It is not pleasure that makes life worth living. It is life that makes pleasure worth having.
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We must all share in the evils of the world or move to another planet.