George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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We should all be obliged to appear before a board every five years and justify our existence... on pain of liquidation.
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Capitalism justified itself and was adopted as an economic principle on the express ground that it provides selfish motives for doing good, and that human beings will do nothing except for selfish motives...
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Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force.
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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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God has given us a world that nothing but our own folly keeps from being a paradise.
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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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Everyone can see that the people who hunt are the right people and the people who don't are the wrong ones.
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A man who loses his money gains, at the least, experience, and sometimes, something better.
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I find that socialism is often misunderstood by its least intelligent supporters and opponents to mean simply unrestrained indulgence of our natural propensity to heave bricks at respectable persons.
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All industries are brought under the control of such people [film producers] by Capitalism. If the capitalists let themselves be seduced from their pursuit of profits to the enchantments of art, they would be bankrupt before they knew where they were. You cannot combine the pursuit of money with the pursuit of art.
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You're only a beginner; and what you think is love, and interest, and all that, is not real love at all: three quarters of it is only unsatisfied curiosity.
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When two people are under the influence of the most violent, most insane, most delusive, and most transient of passions, they are required to swear that they will remain in that excited, abnormal, and exhausting condition continuously until death do them part.
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The whole world is strewn with snares, traps, gins and pitfalls for the capture of men by women.
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We live in an atmosphere of shame. We are ashamed of everything that is real about us; ashamed of ourselves, of our relatives, of our incomes, of our accents, of our opinions, of our experience, just as we are ashamed of our naked skins.
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Instead of Otello being an Italian opera written in the style of Shakespeare, Othello is a play written by Shakespeare in the style of Italian opera.
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Where equality is undisputed, so also is subordination.
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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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The person I miss most is the one I could have been.
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In a stupid nation the man of genius becomes a god: everybody worships him and nobody does his will.
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Some people look at the world and say 'why?' Some people look at the world and say 'why not?'
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It is difficult, if not impossible, for most people to think otherwise than in the fashion of their own period.
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The early Christian rules of life were not made to last, because the early Christians did not believe that the world itself was going to last.
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How you ought properly to spell 'fish' in English: 'goti' .
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Fear is choosing the safe course...