George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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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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The one point on which all women are in furious secret rebellion against the existing law is the saddling of the right to a child with the obligation to become the servant of a man.
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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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Any belief worth having must survive doubt...
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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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The philosopher is Nature's pilot.
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I hate performers who debase great works of art; I long for their annihilation.
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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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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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A drama critic is a man who leaves no turn unstoned.
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Our lives are shaped not as much by our experiences as by our expectations.
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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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There are two things necessary to Salvation.... Money and gunpowder.
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A child hasn't a grown-up person's appetite for affection. A little of it goes a long way with them; and they like a good imitation of it better than the real thing, as every nurse knows.
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The practical question, then, is what to do with the children. Tolerate them at home we will not. Let them run loose in the streets we dare not until our streets become safe places for children, which, to our utter shame, they are not at present, though they can hardly be worse than some homes and some schools.
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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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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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The English are not a very spiritual people, so they invented cricket to give them some idea of eternity.
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Those who minister to poverty and disease are accomplices in the two worst of all the crimes.
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Remember always that the least plain sister is the family beauty.
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I have never admitted the right of an elderly author to alter the work of a young author, even when the young author happens to be his former self.
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The great danger of conversion in all ages has been that when the religion of the high mind is offered to the lower mind, the lower mind, feeling its fascination without understanding it, and being incapable of rising to it, drags it down to its level by degrading it.
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People who are hard, grasping and always ready to take advantage of their neighbors become very rich.
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Only in books has mankind known perfect truth, love and beauty.