Start with the belief that your life can indeed be changed, and that you have the power to change it. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The statesman cannot govern without stability of belief, true or false. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
A succession of eye-openers each involving the repudiation of some previously held belief. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
If you cannot have what you believe in you must believe in what you have. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
He who has nothing to assert has no style and can have none: he who has something to assert will go as… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Faith in reason as a prime motor is no longer the criterion of the sound mind, any more than faith in the… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
There is only one belief that can rob death of its sting and the grave of its victory. For without that you… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“Belief in God meant belief in the old tribal idol called Jehovah; and I would not pretend I did not know whether… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Patriotism is, fundamentally, a conviction that a particular country is the best in the world because you were born in it... — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
We have in England a curious belief in first-rate people, meaning all the people we do not know; and this consoles us… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The moment we want to believe something, we suddenly see all the arguments for it, and become blind to the arguments against… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force. But even Capitalist cynicism will… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
We are more gullible and superstitious today than we were in the Middle Ages, and an example of modern credulity is the… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
I believe that if a man like him were to assume the dictatorship of the modern world he would succeed in solving… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
I have prophesied about the faith of Muhammad that it would be acceptable to the Europe of tomorrow as it is beginning… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Don't lose faith. Promise yourself that you will be a success story, and I promise you that all the forces of the… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“it annoys me to see people comfortable when they ought to be uncomfortable; and I insist on making them think in order… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
In the Middle Ages people believed that the earth was flat, for which they had at least the evidence of their senses:… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“...what man is capable of the insane self-conceit of believing that an eternity of himself would be tolerable even to himself? Those… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Rich men without convictions are more dangerous in modern society than poor women without chastity. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
It is not disbelief that is dangerous to our society; it is belief. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
A miracle is an event which creates faith. That is the purpose and nature of miracles. Frauds deceive. An event which creates… — 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
