George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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Trade unionism is not socialism. It is the capitalism of the proletariat.
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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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There was only one virtue, pugnacity; only one vice, pacifism. That is an essential condition of war.
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How you ought properly to spell 'fish' in English: 'goti' .
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Fine art is the only teacher except torture.
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The great advantage of a hotel is that it is a refuge from home life.
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If you're not producing as much as you consume, or perhaps a little more, then clearly we cannot use the big organization of our society for the purpose of keeping you alive, because your life does not benefit us, and it can't be of very much use to yourself.
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I dread success. To have succeeded is to have finished one's business on earth, like the male spider who is killed by the female the moment he has succeeded in his courtship. I like the state of continual becoming, with a goal in front and not behind.
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Those who are looking for paradise on Earth should come and see Dubrovnik.
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The notion that disarmament can put a stop to war is contradicted by the nearest dogfight.
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It is said that every people has the Government it deserves. It is more to the point that every Government has the electorate it deserves; for the orator of the front bench can edify or debauch an ignorant electorate at will.
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We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.
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Greatness is one of the sensations of littleness...
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This is the true joy in life: Being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one, being a force of nature instead of a feverish, selfish little clod of ailments and grievances, complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy. I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community and as long as I live, it is my privilege to do for it what I can. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got hold of for the moment and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.
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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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An English army led by an Irish general: that might be a match for a French army led by an Italian general.
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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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Vulgarity in a king flatters the majority of the nation.
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When people shake their heads because we are living in a restless age, ask them how they would like to life in a stationary one, and do without change...
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No question is so difficult to answer as that to which the answer is obvious.
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There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.
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All very fine, Mary; but my old-fashioned common sense is better than your clever modern nonsense.
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What I say today everybody will say tomorrow, though they will not remember who put it into their heads. Indeed they will be right for I never remember who puts things into my head : it is the Zeitgeist.
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NAPOLEON: What shall we do with this soldier, Giuseppe? Everything he says is wrong. GIUSEPPE: Make him a general, Excellency, and then everything he says will be right.