George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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There was only one virtue, pugnacity; only one vice, pacifism. That is an essential condition of war.
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That is what all poets do: they talk to themselves out loud; and the world overhears them. But it's horribly lonely not to hear someone else talk sometimes.
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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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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.
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Paradoxes are the only truths.
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All very fine, Mary; but my old-fashioned common sense is better than your clever modern nonsense.
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You will think less of the art, when you know the artist...
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A statesman who confines himself to popular legislation - or, for the matter of that, a playwright who confines himself to popular plays - is like a blind man's dog who goes wherever the blind man pulls him, on the ground that both of them want to go to the same place.
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A man's interest in the world is only the overflow from his interest in himself. When you are a child your vessel is not yet full;so you care for nothing but your own affairs. When you grow up, your vessel overflows; and you are a politician, a philosopher, or an explorer and adventurer. In old age the vessel dries up: there is no overflow: you are a child again.
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Never repeat old grievances.
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There are two things necessary to Salvation.... Money and gunpowder.
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It is the first duty of every man not to be poor.
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Make me a beautiful word for doing things tomorrow; for that surely is a great and blessed invention.
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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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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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Miracles, in the sense of phenomena we cannot explain, surround us on every hand: life itself is the miracle of miracles.
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Parentage is a very important profession, but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interest of the children.
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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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A miracle, my friend, is an event which creates faith.
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And so, to the end of history, murder shall breed murder, always in the name of right and honor and peace, until the gods are tired of blood and create a race that can understand.
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Whenever an obviously well founded statement is made in England by a person specially well acquainted with the facts, that unlucky person is instantly and frantically contradicted by all the people who obviously know nothing about it.
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Most of the money given by rich people in "charity" is made up of conscience money, "ransom," political bribery, and bids for titles.... One buys moral credit by signing a cheque, which is easier than turning a prayer wheel.
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The only power a god can teach is the power of doing without happiness.
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Science becomes dangerous only when it imagines that it has reached its goal.