George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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The surest way to ruin a man who doesn't know how to handle money is to give him some.
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But whether the risks to which liberty exposes us are moral or physical our right to liberty involves the right to run them. A man who is not free to risk his neck as an aviator or his soul as a heretic is not free at all; and the right to liberty begins, not at the age of 21 years but 21 seconds.
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Medical science is as yet very imperfectly differentiated from common cure-mongering witchcraft...
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Perhaps I had better inform my Protestant readers that the famous Dogma of Papal Infallibility is by far the most modest pretension of the kind in existence. Compared with our infallible democracies, our infallible medical councils, our infallible astronomers, our infallible judges, and our infallible parliaments, the Pope is on his knees in the dust confessing his ignorance before the throne of God, asking only that as to certain historical matters on which he has clearly more sources of information open to him than anyone else his decision shall be taken as final.
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No doubt it is easy to demostrate that property will destroy society unless society destroys it.
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Deep knowledge is not knowledge of the thing itself, but knowledge of a thing like the thing. Then, you gain not one knowledge, but two knowledges. Of the thing. And of the original thing with is like the thing. Which is the barbarism of the privileged class.
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Never repeat old grievances.
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Happy is the man who can make a living by his hobby...
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The truth is, hardly any of us have ethical energy enough for more than one really inflexible point of honor.
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Christianity might be a good thing if anyone ever tried it.
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Reminiscences make one feel so deliciously aged and sad.
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Nobody can live in society without conventions. The reason why sensible people are as conventional as they can bear to be is that conventionality saves so much time and thought and trouble and social friction of one sort or another that it leaves them much more leisure time for freedom than unconventionality does.
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The problem with the press is that they can't tell the difference between a bicycle crash and the end of civilization.
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Every man deserves to be judged in the context of his times.
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Lack of money is the root of all evil.
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Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.
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Vivisection is a social evil because if it advances human knowledge, it does so at the expense of human character.
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The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that's the essence of inhumanity.
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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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Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life.
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The person I miss most is the one I could have been.
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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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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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Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.