Nobody can live in society without conventions. The reason why sensible people are as conventional as they can bear to be is… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
We are all victims of the violence that animals suffer... their liberation is also our liberation. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
When a prisoner sees the door of his dungeon open, he dashes for it without stopping to think where he shall get… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Unbounded hopes were placed on each successive extension of the electoral franchise, culminating in the enfranchisement of women.These hopes have been disappointed,… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
You have set up in New York Harbor a monstrous idol which you call Liberty. The only thing that remains to complete… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
My heart, my heart, be whole and free: Love is thine only enemy. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Freedom, my good girl, means being able to count on how other people will behave. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“I have always made you my companions and friends, and allowed you perfect freedom to do and say whatever you liked, so… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Independence? That's middle class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“But whether the risks to which liberty exposes us are moral or physical our right to liberty involves the right to run… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Our laws make law impossible; our liberties destroy all freedom; our property is organized robbery; our morality an impudent hypocrisy; our wisdom… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“The risks of liberty we must let everyone take; but the risks of ignorance and self-helplessness are another matter.” — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
It is quite useless to declare that all men are born free if you deny that they are born good . Guarantee… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“and I wont be coaxed round as if I was a baby or a puppy. If I cant have kindness, I’ll have… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
He who confuses political liberty with freedom and political equality with similarity has never thought for five minutes about either. — 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
