George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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It is one of the mysterious ways of Allah to make women troublesome when he makes them beautiful.
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What a man believes may be ascertained, not from his creed, but from the assumptions on which he habitually acts.
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The secret of forgiving everything is to understand nothing.
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The ordinary man is an anarchist. He wants to do as he likes. He may want his neighbour to be governed, but he himself doesn't want to be governed. He is mortally afraid of government officials and policemen.
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The open mind never acts: when we have done our utmost to arrive at a reasonable conclusion, we still must close our minds for the moment with a snap, and act dogmatically on our conclusions.
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We sing in a church, why can we not dance there?
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If you cannot have what you believe in you must believe in what you have.
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I was a cannibal for twenty-five years. For the rest I have been a vegetarian. It was Shelley who first opened my eyes to the savagery of my diet.
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The theory that music has a depraving effect on morals has now been abandoned to the old women of both sexes.
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To be in hell is to drift; to be in heaven is to steer.
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If there was twenty ways of telling the truth and only one way of telling a lie, the Government would find it out. It's in the nature of governments to tell lies.
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I make a fortune from criticizing the policy of the government, and then hand it over to the government in taxes to keep it going.
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In this world there is always danger for those who are afraid of it.
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I don't believe in morality. I'm a disciple of Bernard Shaw.
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Assasination on the scaffold is the worst form of assasination, because there it is invested with the approval of society.
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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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What we call education and culture is for the most part nothing but the substitution of reading for experience, of literature for life, of the obsolete fictitious for the contemporary real.
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A miracle, my friend, is an event which creates faith.
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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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What use are cartridges in battle? I always carry chocolate instead.
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I was a freethinker before I knew how to think.
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In your Salvation shelter I saw poverty, misery, cold and hunger. You gave them bread and treacle and dreams of heaven. I give from thirty shillings a week to twelve thousand a year. They find their own dreams; but I look after the drainage.
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A part of eugenic politics would finally land us in an extensive use of the lethal chamber. A great many people would have to be put out of existence simply because it wastes other people's time to look after them.
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As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death.