Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Crime is only the retail department of what, in wholesale, we call penal law. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Criminals do not die by the hands of the law. They die by the hands of other men. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Those who minister to poverty and disease are accomplices in the two worst of all the crimes. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Imprisonment, as it exists today, is a worse crime than any of those committed by its victims. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Not everybody is strong enough to endure life without an anesthetic. Drink probably averts more gross crime than it causes. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Man gives every reason for his conduct save one, every excuse for his crimes save one, every plea for his safety save… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The greatest evils and the worst of crimes is poverty; our first duty, a duty to which every other consideration should be… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Murder and capital punishment are not opposites that cancel one another, but similars that breed their kind. It is the deed that… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Of the three official objects of our prison system: vengeance, deterrence, and reformation of the criminal, only one is achieved; and that… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The thief who is in prison is not necessarily more dishonest than his fellows at large, but mostly one who, through ignorance… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
There is, on the whole, nothing on earth intended for innocent people so horrible as a school. To begin with, it is… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“The primitive idea of justice is partly legalized revenge and partly expiation by sacrifice. It works out from both sides in the… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
I love little children too but I don't cut off their heads and stick them in vases. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Blasphemy and sedition (meaning the truth about Church and State). — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
In the arts of life, man invents nothing; but in the arts of death he outdoes Nature herself, and produces by chemistry and machinery… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“My religious convictions and scientific views cannot at present be more specifically defined than as those of a believer in creative evolution. I desire… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
What a man believes may be ascertained, not from his creed, but from the assumptions on which he habitually acts. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
You are my inspiration and my folly. You are my light across the sea, my million nameless joys, and my day's wage. You are… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Men have to do some awfully mean things to keep up their respectability. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The schoolmaster is the person who takes the children off the parents' hands for a consideration. That is to say, he establishes a child… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The camera can represent flesh so superbly that, if I dared, I would never photograph a figure without asking that figure to take its… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
A man who is not a communist at the age of twenty is a fool. Any man who is still communist at the age… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
But to admire a strong person and to live under that strong person’s thumb are two different things. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
![“The thief who is in prison is not necessarily more dishonest than his fellows at large, but mostly one who, through ignorance or stupidity [or racism or poverty! - Draffan] steals in a way that is not customary. He snatches a loaf from the baker's counter and is promptly run into gaol. Another man…” quote by George Bernard Shaw](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/fa5/george-bernard-shaw-68_another-man_the-thief-who-is-in-prison-is-not-necess_3079501.jpg)
