George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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You don't learn to hold your own in the world by standing on guard, but by attacking, and getting well hammered yourself.
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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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The only power a god can teach is the power of doing without happiness.
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Nothing is ever accomplished by a reasonable man.
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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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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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Have you no morals, man?' 'Can't afford them,Governor.
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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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What Englishman will give his mind to politics as long as he can afford to keep a motor car?
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An index is a great leveller.
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A moderately honest man with a moderately faithful wife, moderate drinkers both, in a moderately healthy house: that is the true middle class unit.
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She had lost the art of conversation but not, unfortunately, the power of speech.
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I sing, not arms and the hero, but the philosophic man: he who seeks in contemplation to discover the inner will of the world, ininvention to discover the means of fulfilling that will, and in action to do that will by the so-discovered means.
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Science becomes dangerous only when it imagines that it has reached its goal.
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We are compelled by the theory of God's already achieved perfection to make Him a devil as well as a god, because of the existenceof evil. The god of love, if omnipotent and omniscient, must be the god of cancer and epilepsy as well.... Whoever admits that anything living is evil must either believe that God is malignantly capable of creating evil, or else believe that God has made many mistakes in His attempts to make a perfect being.
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Stimulate the phagocytes.
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Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody reads.
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We are the living graves of murdered beasts, slaughtered to satisfy our appetites. How can we hope in this world to attain the peace we say we are so anxious for?
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Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.
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All evolution in thought and conduct must at first appear as heresy and misconduct.
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Where there is no religion, hypocrisy becomes good taste.
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It is assumed that the woman must wait, motionless, until she is wooed. That is how the spider waits for the fly.
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When an apparent miracle happened.it proved divine mission to the credulous, and proved a contract with the devil to the skeptical.
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Murder and capital punishment are not opposites that cancel one another, but similars that breed their kind. It is the deed that teaches not the name we give it.