“It is easy-terribly easy-to shake a man's faith in himself. To take advantage of that to to break a man's spirit is… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
What is wrong with the prosaic Englishman is what is wrong with the prosaic men of all countries: stupidity. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
I have never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from other… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
We call the one side [of humanity] religion, and we call the other science. Religion is always right. ... Science is always… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Leisure may be defined as free activity, labor as compulsory activity. Leisure does what it likes, labor does what it must, the… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
People have pointed out evidences of personal feeling in my notices as if they were accusing me of a misdemeanor, not knowing… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Every man is a revolutionist concerning the thing he understands. For example, every person who has mastered a profession is a skeptic… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Nationalism must now be added to the refuse pile of superstitions. We are now citizens of the world, and the man who… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Men are not governed by justice, but by law or persuasion. When they refuse to be governed by law or persuasion, they… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The censorship method ... is that of handing the job over to some frail and erring mortal man, and making him omnipotent… — 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
There is a disease to which plays as well as men become liable with advancing years. In men it is called doting,… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
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 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
Girls, like men, want to be petted, pitied, and made much of, when they are diffident, in low spirits, or in unrequited… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Plato long ago pointed out the importance of being governed by men with sufficient sense of responsibility and comprehension of public duties… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
I am very subtle; but Man is deeper in his thought than I am. The woman knows that there is no such… — 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
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
“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
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
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
Men have to do some awfully mean things to keep up their respectability. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share
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
As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share
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
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
But to admire a strong person and to live under that strong person’s thumb are two different things. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share
The person who is ignorant enough to believe that his nourishment depends on meat is in a horrible dilemma. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share