George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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Justice is justice though it's always delayed and finally done only by mistake.
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Martyrdom: The only way a man can become famous without ability.
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My mother married a very good man ... and she is not at all keen on my doing the same.
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I no longer desire happiness: life is nobler than that.
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A man of genius is not a man who sees more than other men do. On the contrary, it is very often found that he is absentminded andobserves much less than other people.... Why is it that the public have such an exaggerated respect for him--after he is dead? The reason is that the man of genius understands the importance of the few things he sees.
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What we are confronted with now is a growing perception that if we desire a certain type of civilization and culture we must exterminate the sort of people who do not fit into it.
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As long as you don't fly openly in the face of society, society doesn't ask any inconvenient questions; and it makes precious short work of the cads who do. There are no secrets better kept than the secrets everybody guesses.
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If the governments devalue the currency in order to betray all creditors, you politely call this procedure 'inflation'.
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When people shake their heads because we are living in a restless age, ask them how they would like to life in a stationary one, and do without change...
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God made the world as an artist and that is why the world must learn from its artists.
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Rich men without convictions are more dangerous in modern society than poor women without chastity.
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We know there is intention and purpose in the universe, because there is intention and purpose in us.
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Be like the sun and meadow, which are not in the least concerned about the coming winter.
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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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If more than 10% of the people like a painting, you can be sure it's bad.
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People become attached to their burdens sometimes more than the burdens are attached to them.
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A vegetarian is not a person who lives on vegetables, any more than a Catholic is a person who lives on cats.
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Schools and schoolmasters, as we have them today, are not popular as places of education and teachers, but rather prisons and turnkeys in which children are kept to prevent them disturbing and chaperoning their parent.
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We call the one side [of humanity] religion, and we call the other science. Religion is always right. ... Science is always wrong; it is the very artifice of men. Science can never solve one problem without raising ten more problems.
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In my dreams is a country where the State is the Church and the Church the people: three in one and one in three. It is a commonwealth in which work is play and play is life: three in one and one in three. It is a temple in which the priest is the worshiper and the worshiper the worshipped: three in one and one in three. It is a godhead in which all life is human and all humanity divine: three in one and one in three.
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I do not waste my time writing pot-boilers: the pot must be boiled, and even my pot au feu has some chunks of fresh meat in it. ...I have no time to boil myself down; and anyhow I could not do so and preserve all the necessary nutriment and the flavoring on which the digestibility depends.
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Everybody who does not live in a prostitute's bed and on a diet of cocaine snow is called an ascetic nowadays.
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Reminiscences make one feel so deliciously aged and sad.
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All evolution in thought and conduct must at first appear as heresy and misconduct.