The notion that persons should be safe from extermination as long as they do not commit willful murder, or levy war against… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
There was only one virtue, pugnacity; only one vice, pacifism. That is an essential condition of war. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
What use are cartridges in battle? I always carry chocolate instead. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
We are sick of war, we don't want to fight, And yet we gorge ourselves upon the dead. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
An election is a moral horror, as bad as a battle except for the blood; a mud bath for every soul concerned… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
There is the eternal war between those who are in the world for what they can get out of it and those… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The evil to be attacked is not sin, suffering, greed, priesthood, kingcraft, demagogy, monopoly, ignorance, drink, war, pestilence, nor any of the… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The notion that disarmament can put a stop to war is contradicted by the nearest dogfight. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
If all the Churches of Europe closed their doors until the drums ceased rolling they would act as a most powerful reminder… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
We all have--to put it as nicely as I can--our lower centres and our higher centres. Our lower centres act: they act… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Only in the problem play is there any real drama, because drama is no mere setting up of the camera to nature:… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Man is the only animal of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid...There is no harm in a well-fed lion. It has… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Cruelty must be whitewashed by a moral excuse, and pretense of reluctance. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“All classes in proportion to their lack of travel and familiarity with foreign literature are bellicose, prejudiced against foreigners, fond of fighting… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Our way of getting an army able to fight the German army is to declare war on Germany just as if we… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
In a battle all you need to make you fight is a little hot blood and the knowledge that it's more dangerous… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
A modern gentleman [rich person] is necessarily the enemy of his country. Even in war he does not fight to defend it,… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The British soldier can stand up to anything except the British War Office. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
War can so easily be gilt with romance and heroism and solemn national duty and patriotism and the like by persons whose… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Dying is a troublesome business: there is pain to be suffered, and it wrings one's heart; but death is a splendid thing… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous. — 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