George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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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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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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Where there is no religion, hypocrisy becomes good taste.
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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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People become attached to their burdens sometimes more than the burdens are attached to them.
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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 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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We know there is intention and purpose in the universe, because there is intention and purpose in us.
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A man has no business to marry a woman who can't make him miserable. It means she can't make him happy.
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She had lost the art of conversation but not, unfortunately, the power of speech.
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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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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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Have you no morals, man?' 'Can't afford them,Governor.
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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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Rich men without convictions are more dangerous in modern society than poor women without chastity.
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Don't wait for the right opportunity: create it.
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It is the first duty of every man not to be poor.
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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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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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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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The ability to make witty observations is commonly refered to as "cynism" by people who lack it.
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Imprisonment, as it exists today, is a worse crime than any of those committed by its victims.
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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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It is not enough to know what is good: you must be able to do it.