Life is a disease; and the only difference between on man and another is the stage of the disease at which he… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Medical science is as yet very imperfectly differentiated from common cure-mongering witchcraft — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Of all the anti-social vested interests the worst is the vested interest in ill-health. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
A doctor's reputation is made by the number of eminent men who die under his care. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Nothing is more dangerous than a poor doctor: not even a poor employer or a poor landlord. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
There is at bottom only one genuinely scientific treatment for all diseases, and that is to stimulate the phagocytes. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Treat persons who profess to be able to cure disease as you treat fortune tellers. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Every doctor will allow a colleague to decimate a whole countryside sooner than violate the bond of professional etiquette by giving him… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
He said that private practice in medicine ought to be put down by law. When I asked him why, he said that… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
When men die of disease they are said to die from natural causes. When they recover (and mostly they do) the doctor… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Let no one suppose that the words doctor and patient can disguise from the parties the fact that they are employer and… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Optimistic lies have such immense therapeutic value that a doctor who cannot tell them convincingly has mistaken his profession. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The doctor learns that if he gets ahead of the superstitions of his patients he is a ruined man; and the result… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
A serious illness or a death advertises the doctor exactly as a hanging advertises the barrister who defended the person hanged. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The medical profession (is) a conspiracy to hide its own shortcomings. No doubt the same may be said of all professions. They… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
If I refuse to allow my leg to be amputated, its mortification and my death may prove that I was wrong; but… — 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
