George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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Man is unique in that he has plans, purpose and goals which require the need for criteria of choice. The need for ethical value is within man whose future may largely be determined by the choice he make...
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Greatness is one of the sensations of littleness...
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My situation is a solemn one: life is offered to me on the condition of eating beefsteaks. But death is better than cannibalism. My will contains directions for my funeral, which will be followed, not by mourning coaches, but by oxen, sheep, flocks of poultry, and a small traveling aquarium of live fish, all wearing white scarves in honor of the man who perished rather than eat his fellow creatures. It will be, without the exception of Noah's Ark, the most remarkable thing of its kind ever seen.
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As a red hot Communist I am in favour of fascism. The only drawback to Sir Oswald’s movement is that it is not quite British enough.
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We sing in a church, why can we not dance there?
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As people get their opinions so largely from the newspapers they read... But the Press is not free, the newspapers are owned by rich men.
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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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Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty; what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness.
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Never fret for an only son, the idea of failure will never occur to him.
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You sometimes have to answer a woman according to her womanliness, just as you have to answer a fool according to his folly.
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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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Happiness and beauty are by-products. Folly is the direct pursuit of happiness and beauty.
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Faith in reason as a prime motor is no longer the criterion of the sound mind, any more than faith in the Bible is the criterion of righteous intention.
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HIGGINS. Have you no morals, man? DOOLITTLE unabashed Cant afford them, Governor. Neither could you if you was as poor as me.
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Lack of money is the root of all evil.
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You have set up in New York Harbor a monstrous idol which you call Liberty. The only thing that remains to complete that monument is to put on its pedestal the inscription written by Dante on the gate of hell: All hope abandon ye who enter here.
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The reasonable man will adjust to the demands of his environment. The unreasonable man expects his environment to adjust to his own needs. Therefore, all progress depends upon the unreasonable man.
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God's trustiest lieutenants often lack official credentials. They may be professed atheists who are also men of honour and high public spirit.
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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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There is nothing on earth more exquisite than a bonny book, with well-placed columns of rich black writing in beautiful borders, and illuminated pictures cunningly inset. But nowadays, instead of looking at books, people read them. A book might as well be one of those orders for bacon and bran.
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The greatest thing in life is to die young - but delay it as long as possible.
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Experience fails to teach where there is no desire to learn.
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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 educate one another; and we cannot do this if half of us consider the other half not good enough to talk to.