George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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Shall I turn up the light for you? No, give me deeper darkness. Money is not made in the light.
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I was a freethinker before I knew how to think.
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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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It's easier to replace a dead man than a good picture.
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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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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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Conceive. That is the word that means both the beginning in imagination and the end in creation.
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The secret of forgiving everything is to understand nothing.
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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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Every man to whom salvation is offered has an inalienable natural right to say 'No, thank you: I prefer to retain my full moral responsibility: it is not good for me to be able to load a scapegoat with my sins: I should be less careful how I committed them if I knew they would cost me nothing.
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I have to live for others and not for myself: that's middle-class morality.
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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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The natural term of the affection of the human animal for its offspring is six years.
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Though I can make my extravaganzas appear credible, I cannot make the truth appear so.
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Christianity might be a good thing if anyone ever tried it.
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Our first duty, to which every other consideration should be sacrificed, is not to be poor.
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I hate the poor and look forward eagerly to their extermination.
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If a woman rebels against high-heeled shoes, she should take care to do it in a very smart hat...
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What we are confronted with now is a growing perception that if we desire a certain type of civilization and culture we must exterminate the sort of people who do not fit into it.
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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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I really don't think I could consent to go to Heaven if I thought there were no animals there.
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God has given us a world that nothing but our own folly keeps from being a paradise.
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I don't believe in morality. I'm a disciple of Bernard Shaw.
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I can't turn your soul on. Leave me those feelings; and you can take away the voice and the face. They are not you.