George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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Rising inequality isn’t about who has the knowledge; it’s about who has the power.
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It's usually pointed out that women are not fit for political power, and ought not to be trusted with a vote because they are politically ignorant, socially prejudiced, narrow-minded, and selfish. True enough, but precisely the same is true of men!
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A man of genius is not a man who sees more than other men do. On the contrary, it is very often found that he is absentminded andobserves much less than other people.... Why is it that the public have such an exaggerated respect for him--after he is dead? The reason is that the man of genius understands the importance of the few things he sees.
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The great secret...is not having bad manners or good manners...but having the same manner for all human souls.
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Marriage is the most licentious of human institutions.
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I don't believe in morality. I'm a disciple of Bernard Shaw.
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The happiness of credulity is a cheap and dangerous quality.
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The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
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I hate the poor and look forward eagerly to their extermination.
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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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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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I was a freethinker before I knew how to think.
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In gambling the many must lose in order that the few may win.
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What right has any human being to talk of bringing up a child? You do not bring up a tree or a plant. It brings itself up. You have to give it a fair chance by tilling the soil.
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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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Our first duty, to which every other consideration should be sacrificed, is not to be poor.
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Don't order any black things. Rejoice in his memory; and be radiant: leave grief to the children. Wear violet and purple. Be patient with the poor people who will snivel: they don't know; and they think they will live for ever, which makes death a division instead of a bond.
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I'm only a beer teetotaler, not a champagne teetotaler. I don't like beer.
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Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history.
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Never fret for an only son, the idea of failure will never occur to him.
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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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Conceive. That is the word that means both the beginning in imagination and the end in creation.
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Treat a friend as a person who may someday become your enemy; an enemy as a person who may someday become your friend.
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Men are always thinking that they are going to do something grandly wicked to their enemies; but when it comes to the point, really bad men are just as rare as really good ones.