Books Quote by Lyle W. Dorsett

“It was George Bernard Shaw who famously said that you should not do to others as you would wish to be done to -…

— Will Buckingham

Concerning no subject would [George Bernard] Shaw be deterred by the minor accident of total ignorance from penning a definitive opinion.

— Roger Scruton

I hate Bernard Shaw because he says that life is compromise.

— Christina Stead

“Two things which are the peculiar domain of the heart, not the mind—politics and religion. He doesn’t want to know the other side. He…

— Mark Twain

“The bothersome noise of religious talk grows irksome when laid upon the living score of discordant behavior. Talkative's”

— John Bunyan

Shaw does not merely decorate a proposition, but makes his way from point to point through new and difficult territory. This explains why Shaw…

— Jacques Barzun

“In George Bernard Shaw’s words, ‘The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact…

— Richard Dawkins

The old adage that polite conversation should not include talk of politics or religion is understandable because both subjects are so heavily laden with…

— John C. Danforth

“Sensible men are all of the same religion. Religious sentiments cannot be stirred up within righteous people of any religion for instigating them to…

— Dr. Amit Abraham

“We are more politically fanatical than ever before, more religiously zealous, more rigid in our thinking, less capable of empathy. We are completely avoiding…

— Nathan Hill

“One cannot exchange ideas with a rational person any more than one can argue with a religious fanatic.”

— A. Manette Ansay

“The political vision of the religious right is for the most part an individualistic politics of righteousness, not a communal politics of compassion.”

— Marcus J. Borg