George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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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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Assasination on the scaffold is the worst form of assasination, because there it is invested with the approval of society.
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Cruelty would be delicious if one could only find some sort of cruelty that didn't really hurt.
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We should have had socialism already, but for the socialists, am quite willing to drop the name if dropping it will help me to get the thing.
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Nothing is ever accomplished by a reasonable man.
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I prefer the man who calls his nonsense a mystery to him who who pretends it is a weighed, measured, analyzed fact.
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The most anxious man in a prison is the governor.
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Who is this Baby Ruth? And what does she do?
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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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Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
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No man fully capable of his own language ever masters another.
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We throw the whole drudgery of creation on one sex, and then imply that no female of any delicacy would initiate any effort in that direction.
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People become attached to their burdens sometimes more than the burdens are attached to them.
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Stimulate the phagocytes.
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The plain working truth is that it is not only good for people to be shocked occasionally, but absolutely necessary to the progress of society that they should be shocked pretty often.
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Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.
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Social questions are too sectional, too topical, too temporal to move a man to the mighty effort which is needed to produce greatpoetry. Prison reform may nerve Charles Reade to produce an effective and businesslike prose melodrama; but it could never produce Hamlet, Faust, or Peer Gynt.
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You have a choice of trusting the natural stability of gold, or the honesty and intelligence of members of government.
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Where there is no religion, hypocrisy becomes good taste.
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In the arts of peace Man is a bungler.
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Let wife and child perish, and lay bricks for your last crust, rather than part with an iota of your copyrights.
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Have you no morals, man?' 'Can't afford them,Governor.
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Any belief worth having must survive doubt...
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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.