Quotes from George Bernard Shaw

If I bind the future I bind my will. If I bind my will I strangle creation.

The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and all time.

The frontier between hell and heaven is only the difference between two ways of looking at things.

I am a Christian. That obliges me to be a Communist.

Syllables govern the world.

Though justice be Thy plea, consider this: That in the course of justice none of us should see salvation. We do pray for mercy, And that same prayer doth teach us all to render The deeds of mercy.

One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't.

Common sense is instinct. Enough of it is genius.

Never waste jealousy on a real man: it is the imaginary man that supplants us all in the long run.

Compassion is the fellow-feeling of the unsound.

It is not enough to know what is good: you must be able to do it.

Very few people can afford to be poor.

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

Islam is the best religion and Muslims are the worst followers

Most people do not pray; they only beg.

There is not one single established religion that an intelligent, educated man can believe.

If any religion had a chance of ruling over England, nay Europe within the next hundred years, it could be Islam.

I have found, after a good deal of consideration, that the best place to seek God is in a garden. You can dig for Him here.

The happiness of credulity is a cheap and dangerous quality.

Christianity might be a good thing if anyone ever tried it.

My religion? Well, my dear, I am a Millionaire. That is my religion.

Where there is no religion, hypocrisy becomes good taste.

I can't talk religion to a man with bodily hunger in his eyes.

I'm an atheist and I thank God for it.