Schools must not become the agencies through which propaganda advocated by any section of society is spread. The method of control always… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
I don't know what to say about this book. The experience on which it is founded is so extraordinary, that an honest… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Why, except as a means of livelihood, a man should desire to act on the stage when he has the whole world… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
It is monstrous that custom should force us to display our faces ostentatiously, however worn and wrinkled and mean they may be,… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Though justice be Thy plea, consider this: That in the course of justice none of us should see salvation. We do pray… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
I have not wasted my life trifling with literary fools in taverns, as Johnson did, when he should have been shaking England… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The greatest evils and the worst of crimes is poverty; our first duty, a duty to which every other consideration should be… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
To withhold deserved praise lest it should make its object conceited is as dishonest as to withhold payment of a just debt… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Those who are looking for paradise on Earth should come and see Dubrovnik. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
We should all be obliged to appear before a board every five years and justify our existence... on pain of liquidation. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Very nice sort of place, Oxford, I should think, for people that like that sort of place. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
I assume that to prevent illness in later life, you should never have been born at all. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
We should find ourselves committed to killing a great many people whom we now leave living, and to leave living a great… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
If a woman rebels against high-heeled shoes, she should take care to do it in a very smart hat — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Education can and should do much influence social, moral and intellectual discovery by stimulating critical attitudes of thought in the young — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one of them is listening to… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The world is populated in the main by people who should not exist — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
A man who desires to get married should know everything or nothing. — 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