Quotes from George Bernard Shaw

We are sick of war, we don't want to fight, And yet we gorge ourselves upon the dead.

Creation is a miracle of daily recurrence. 'A miracle a minute' would not be a bad slogan for God.

The fickleness of the woman I love is equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.

Kings are not born: they are made by artificial hallucination.

Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.

Beware of the man who does not return your blow: he neither forgives you nor allows you to forgive yourself.

If you're not producing as much as you consume, or perhaps a little more, then clearly we cannot use the big organization of our society for the purpose of keeping you alive, because your life does not benefit us, and it can't be of very much use to yourself.

It is the mark of a truly intelligent person to be moved by statistics.

The truth is, hardly any of us have ethical energy enough for more than one really inflexible point of honor.

The joy in life is to be used for a purpose. I want to be used up when I die.

The Jews generally give value. They make you pay; but they deliver the goods. In my experience the men who want something for nothing are invariably Christians.

If Despotism failed only for want of a capable benevolent despot, what chance has Democracy, which requires a whole population of capable voters.

Build a system that even a fool can use, and only a fool will want to use it.

Money enables us to get what we want instead of what other people think we want.

If there is anything I hate in a woman, it's want of character.

In socialism, private property is anathema, and equal distribution of income the first consideration. In capitalism, private property is cardinal, and distribution left to ensue from the play of free contract and selfish interest on that basis, no matter what anomalies it may present.

The only fundamental and possible socialism is the socialisation of the selective breeding of man.

Socialism is the same as Communism, only better English.

Socialism never arises in the earlier phases of capitalism, as, for instance, among the pioneers of civilisation in a country where there is plenty of land available for private appropriation by the last comer.

Those who do not know how to live must make a merit of dying.

My method of getting a play across the footlights is like a revolver shooting: every line has a bullet in it and comes with an explosion.

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent in doing nothing.

No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.

I make a fortune from criticizing the policy of the government, and then hand it over to the government in taxes to keep it going