Humans Quotes by George Bernard Shaw

To me the sole hope of human salvation lies in teaching.

— George Bernard Shaw

Marriage is the most licentious of human institutions.

— George Bernard Shaw

Man is the only animals of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid.

— George Bernard Shaw

Our ideals, like the gods of old, are constantly demanding human sacrifices.

— George Bernard Shaw

Of all the damnable waste of human life that ever was invented, clerking is the worst.

— George Bernard Shaw

Nature holds no brief for the human experiment; it must stand or fall by its results.

— George Bernard Shaw

Stop being Jews and start being human beings.

— George Bernard Shaw

Unless the law of marriage were first made human, it could never become divine.

— George Bernard Shaw

I can forgive Alfred Nobel for having invented dynamite, but only a fiend in human form could have invented the Nobel Prize.

— George Bernard Shaw

What right has any human being to talk of bringing up a child? You do not bring up a tree or a…

— George Bernard Shaw

When I speak of The Case for Equality I mean human equality; and that, of course, can only mean one thing: it…

— George Bernard Shaw

The great secret...is not having bad manners or good manners...but having the same manner for all human souls.

— George Bernard Shaw

The confusing of marriage with morality has done more to destroy the conscience of the human race than any other single error.

— George Bernard Shaw

Confusing monogamy with morality has done more to destroy the conscience of the human race than any other error.

— George Bernard Shaw

Of all human struggles there is none so treacherous and remorseless as the struggle between the artist man and the mother woman.

— George Bernard Shaw

Now that we have learned to fly the air like birds, swim under water like fish, we lack one thing - to…

— George Bernard Shaw

At present, intelligent people do not have their children vaccinated, nor does the law now compel them to. The result is not,…

— George Bernard Shaw

To me the sole hope of human salvation lies in teaching Man to regard himself as an experiment in the realization of…

— George Bernard Shaw

Eternal is the fact that the human creature born in Ireland and brought up in its air is Irish. I have lived…

— George Bernard Shaw

Worst of all, there is no sign of any relaxation of antisemitism. Logically it has nothing to do with Fascism. But the…

— George Bernard Shaw

The great secret, Eliza, is not having bad manners or good manners or any other particular sort of manners, but having the…

— George Bernard Shaw

You do not settle whether an argument is justified by merely showing that it is of some use. The distinction is not…

— George Bernard Shaw

It exasperated her to think that the dungeon in which she had languished for so many unhappy years had been unlocked all…

— George Bernard Shaw

Remember that you are a human being with a soul and the divine gift of articulate speech: that your native language is…

— George Bernard Shaw

The moment we face it frankly we are driven to the conclusion that the community has a right to put a price…

— George Bernard Shaw

Capitalism drives the employers to do their worst to the employed, and the employed to do the least for them. And it…

— George Bernard Shaw

We're human beings we are - all of us - and that's what people are liable to forget. Human beings don't like…

— George Bernard Shaw

In my dreams is a country where the State is the Church and the Church the people: three in one and one…

— George Bernard Shaw

Even to this day it is easier than it ought to be for me to get a rise out of an American…

— George Bernard Shaw

When domestic servants are treated as human beings it is not worth while to keep them.

— George Bernard Shaw

There are scores of thousands of human insects who are ready at a moment's notice to reveal the Will of God on…

— George Bernard Shaw

There is nothing that can be changed more completely than human nature when the job is taken in hand early enough.

— George Bernard Shaw

I was convinced that Ceylon is the cradle of the human race because everyone there looks an original.

— George Bernard Shaw

I was convinced that Ceylon is the cradle of the human race because everybody there looks an original. All other nations are…

— George Bernard Shaw

Vivisection is a social evil because if it advances human knowledge, it does so at the expense of human character.

— George Bernard Shaw

Capitalism justified itself and was adopted as an economic principle on the express ground that it provides selfish motives for doing good,…

— George Bernard Shaw

Physically there is nothing to distinguish human society from the farm-yard except that children are more troublesome and costly than chickens and…

— George Bernard Shaw

Human misery is so appalling nowadays that if we allowed ourselves to dwell on it we should only add imaginary miseries of…

— George Bernard Shaw

The technical history of modern harmony is a history of growth of toleration by the human ear of chords that at first…

— George Bernard Shaw