George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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Some persons, by hating vice too much, come to love men too little. Hatred is self-punishment. Hatred is the cowards revenge for being intimidated.
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If in the library of your house you do not have the works of the ancient Greek writers, then you live in a house with no light.
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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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The camera can represent flesh so superbly that, if I dared, I would never photograph a figure without asking that figure to take its clothes off.
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The cinema is going to form the mind of England. The national conscience, the national ideals and tests of conduct, will be those of the film.
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Medical science is as yet very imperfectly differentiated from common cure-mongering witchcraft...
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The most sublime courage I have ever witnessed has been among that class too poor to know they possessed it, and too humble for the world to discover it.
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Some men are born kings; and some are born statesmen. The two are seldom the same.
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What a man is depends on his character; but what he does, and what we think of what he does, depends on his circumstances.
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Where equality is undisputed, so also is subordination.
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Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
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The censorship method ... is that of handing the job over to some frail and erring mortal man, and making him omnipotent on the assumption that his official status will make him infallible and omniscient.
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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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The secret of forgiving everything is to understand nothing.
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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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In this world there is always danger for those who are afraid of it.
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All evolution in thought and conduct must at first appear as heresy and misconduct.
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Why, except as a means of livelihood, a man should desire to act on the stage when he has the whole world to act in, is not clear to me.
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A miracle, my friend, is an event which creates faith.
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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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To endure the pain of living, we all drug ourselves more or less with gin, with literature, with superstitions, with romance, with idealism, political, sentimental, and moral, with every possible preparation of that universal hashish: imagination.
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The function of the actor is to make the audience imagine for the moment that real things are happening to real people.
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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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There is the eternal war between those who are in the world for what they can get out of it and those who are in the world to make it a better place for everybody to live in.