Quotes from George Bernard Shaw

No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense an idiot.

Where there is no religion, hypocrisy becomes good taste

The philosopher is Nature's pilot. And there you have our difference: to be n hell is to drift: to be in heaven is to steer.

If all the economists were laid end to end, they'd never reach a conclusion.

Golf is typical capitalist lunacy

You can be as romantic as you please about love, Hector; but you mustn't be romantic about money

There is no subject on which more dangerous nonsense is talked and thought than marriage.

Children are the hands by which we take hold of heaven.

There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart's desire. The other is to get it.

Only Lawyers and mental defectives are automatically exempt for jury duty.

Disobedience, the rarest and most courageous of the virtues, is seldom distinguished from neglect, the laziest and commonest of the vices.

We veneer civilization by doing unkind things in a kind way

Assassination: the extreme form of censorship.

Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody reads.

The first condition of progress is the removal of censorship.

Revolutionary movements attract those who are not good enough for established institutions as well as those who are too good for them.

Revolutions have never lightened the burden of tyranny: they have only shifted it to another shoulder.

Socialism means equality of income or nothing... under socialism you would not be allowed to be poor. You would be forcibly fed, clothed, lodged, taught, and employed whether you like it or not. If it were discovered that you had not character enough to be worth all this trouble, you might possibly be executed in a kindly manner; but whilst you were permitted to live you would have to live well

Animals are my friends... and I do not eat my friends.

A mind of the caliber of mine cannot derive its nutrient from cows.

It's so hard to know what to do when one wishes earnestly to do right.

When I was young I observed that nine out of every ten things I did were failures, so I did ten times more work.

Few of us have vitality enough to make any of our instincts imperious.

Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force.