Quotes from George Bernard Shaw

The only service a friend can really render is to keep your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself

Animals are my friends... and I don't eat my friends.

As long as I have a want I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death.

What we are confronted with now is a growing perception that if we desire a certain type of civilization and culture we must exterminate the sort of people who do not fit into it.

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

We are the living graves of murdered beasts.

Oh, come! That boot is on the other leg. Why should you call me to account for eating decently? If I battened on the scorched corpses of animals, you might well ask me why I did that

A succession of eye-openers each involving the repudiation of some previously held belief.

We are told that when Jehovah created the world he saw that it was good what would he say now

He who confuses political liberty with freedom and political equality with similarity has never thought for five minutes about either.

Only where there is pecuniary equality can the distinction of merit stand out.

Where equality is undisputed, so also is subordination.

Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.

My opportunities were still there, nay, they multiplied tenfold; but the strength and youth to cope with them began to fail, and to need eking out with the shifty cunning of experience.

Men are wise in proportion not to their experience but to their capacity for experience.

A miracle, my friend, is an event which creates faith.

Faith in reason as a prime motor is no longer the criterion of the sound mind, any more than faith in the Bible is the criterion of righteous intention.

It is easy-terribly easy-to shake a man's faith in himself. To take advantage of that to to break a man's spirit is Devil's work.

A family is a tyranny ruled over by it's weakest member.

Remember always that the least plain sister is the family beauty.

Patriotism is a pernicious, psychopathic form of idiocy.

In this world there is always danger for those who are afraid of it.

If you take too long in deciding what to do with your life, you'll find you've done it.

If you do not say a thing in an irritating way, you may as well not say it at all because people will not trouble themselves about anything that does not trouble them.