No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense an idiot. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
In an ugly and unhappy world the richest man can purchase nothing but ugliness and unhappiness. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
A revolutionist is one who desires to discard the existing social order and try another. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Obedience simulates subordination as fear of the police simulates honesty. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
If the wicked flourish and the fittest survive, Nature must be the god of rascals. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
How can what an Englishman believes be hearsay? It is a contradiction in terms. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
I'm not a teacher: only a fellow traveler of whom you asked the way. I pointed ahead - ahead of myself as… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The early Christian rules of life were not made to last, because the early Christians did not believe that the world itself… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Assasination on the scaffold is the worst form of assasination, because there it is invested with the approval of society. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
No doubt it is easy to demostrate that property will destroy society unless society destroys it. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Property, said Proudhon, is theft. This is the only perfect truism that has been uttered on the subject. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Englishmen hate Liberty and Equality too much to understand them. But every Englishman loves a pedigree. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Man is the only animal which esteems itself rich in proportion to the number and voracity of its parasites. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
In your Salvation shelter I saw poverty, misery, cold and hunger. You gave them bread and treacle and dreams of heaven. I… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The great danger of conversion in all ages has been that when the religion of the high mind is offered to the… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
No community has ever yet passed beyond the initial phases in which its pugnacity and fanaticism enabled it to found a nation,… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
What is really important in Man is the part of him that we do not understand. Of much of it we are… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
You are all fundamentalists with a top dressing of science. That is why you are the stupidest of conservatives and reactionists in… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Those who minister to poverty and disease are accomplices in the two worst of all the crimes. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Crime is only the retail department of what, in wholesale, we call penal law. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The vilest abortionist is he who attempts to mould a child's character. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Civilization is a disease produced by the practice of building societies with rotten material. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The art of government is the organization of idolatry. The bureaucracy consists of functionaries; the aristocracy, of idols; the democracy, of idolaters.… — 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
What is wrong with priests and popes is that instead of being apostles and saints, they are nothing but empirics who say… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
I believe in Michelangelo, Velasquez, and Rembrandt; in the might of design, the mystery of color, the redemption of all things by… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Don't order any black things. Rejoice in his memory; and be radiant: leave grief to the children. Wear violet and purple. Be… — 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
