George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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With the exception of capitalism, there is nothing so revolting as revolution.
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The moment we face it frankly we are driven to the conclusion that the community has a right to put a price on the right to live in it ... If people are fit to live, let them live under decent human conditions. If they are not fit to live, kill them in a decent human way. Is it any wonder that some of us are driven to prescribe the lethal chamber as the solution for the hard cases which are at present made the excuse for dragging all the other cases down to their level, and the only solution that will create a sense of full social responsibility in modern populations?
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If the English can survive their food, they can survive anything.
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The joy in life is to be used for a purpose. I want to be used up when I die.
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Oh, well, if you want original conversations, you'd better go and talk to yourself.
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We are sick of war, we don't want to fight, And yet we gorge ourselves upon the dead.
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I have very carefully studied Islam and the life of its Prophet (PBUH). I have done so both as a student of history and as a critic. And I have come to conclusion that Muhammad (PBUH) was indeed a great man and a deliverer and benefactor of mankind which was till then writhing under the most agonising Pain.
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My heart, my heart, be whole and free: Love is thine only enemy.
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A book is like a child: it is easier to bring it into the world than to control it when it is launched there.
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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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It is a noteworthy fact that kicking and beating have played so considerable a part in the habits which necessity has imposed on mankind in past ages that the only way of preventing civilized men from beating and kicking their wives is to organize games in which they can kick and beat balls.
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The sex illusion is not a fixed quantity: not what mathematicians call a constant. It varies from zero in my wife's case to madness in that of our stepsister.
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A miracle is an event which creates faith. That is the purpose and nature of miracles. Frauds deceive. An event which creates faith does not deceive: therefore it is not a fraud, but a miracle.
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All problems are finally scientific problems.
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Who are those we love? Only those we do not hate.
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No sooner had Jesus knocked over the dragon of superstition than Paul boldly set it on its legs again in the name of Jesus.
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A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.
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Only where there is pecuniary equality can the distinction of merit stand out.
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We are the masters at the moment, and not only at the moment, but for a very long time to come.
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Be as romantic as you please about love ... but you mustn't be romantic about money.
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My friend, when a man has anything to tell in this world, the difficulty is not to make him tell it, but to prevent him from telling it too often.
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Where there is no knowledge ignorance calls itself science.
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My religious convictions and scientific views cannot at present be more specifically defined than as those of a believer in creative revolution. I desire that no public monument or work of art or inscription or sermon or ritual service commemorating me shall suggest that I accepted the tenets peculiar to any established church or denomination nor take the form of a cross or any other instrument of torture or symbol of blood sacrifice.