The only power a god can teach is the power of doing without happiness. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The English have no respect for their language, and will not teach their children to speak it. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Once there was a time when all people believed in God and the church ruled. This time is called the Dark Ages.… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
When a man teaches something he does not know to somebody else who has no aptitude for it, and gives him a… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Murder and capital punishment are not opposites that cancel one another, but similars that breed their kind. It is the deed that… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
I object to publishers: the one service they have done me is to teach me to do without them. They combine commercial… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
All the sweetness of religion is conveyed to the world by the hands of storytellers and image-makers. Without their fictions the truths… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Very nice sort of place, Oxford, I should think, for people that like that sort of place. They teach you to be… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
My schooling not only failed to teach me what it professed to be teaching, but prevented me from being educated to an… — 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
The English have no respect for their language, and will not teach their children to speak it. They spell it so abominably… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Just as the historian can teach no real history until he has cured his readers of the romantic delusion that the greatness… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
In truth , mankind cannot be saved from without, by schoolmasters or any other sort of masters: it can only be lamed… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance. — 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
