Quotes

“Self-sacrifice enables us to sacrifice other people without blushing.” George Bernard Shaw

“Until the men of action clear out the talkers we who have social consciences are at the mercy of those who have none.” George Bernard Shaw

“Martyrdom: The only way a man can become famous without ability.” George Bernard Shaw

“Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it.” George Bernard Shaw

“You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.” George Bernard Shaw

“An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable.” George Bernard Shaw

“I am a Christian. That obliges me to be a Communist.” George Bernard Shaw

“My reputation grows with every failure.” George Bernard Shaw

“Americans adore me and will go on adoring me until I say something nice about them.” George Bernard Shaw

“In this world there is always danger for those who are afraid of it.” George Bernard Shaw

“Property is organized robbery.” George Bernard Shaw

“When a man says money can do anything, that settles it: he hasn't got any.” George Bernard Shaw

“While we ourselves are the living graves of murdered animals, how can we expect any ideal living conditions on this earth?” George Bernard Shaw

“Life levels all men. Death reveals the eminent.” George Bernard Shaw

“Marriage is good enough for the lower classes: they have facilities for desertion that are denied to us.” George Bernard Shaw

“Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.” George Bernard Shaw

“Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does.” George Bernard Shaw

“He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches.” George Bernard Shaw

“If there was nothing wrong in the world there wouldn't be anything for us to do.” George Bernard Shaw

“Those who do not know how to live must make a merit of dying.” George Bernard Shaw

“We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.” George Bernard Shaw

“Nothing is ever done in this world until men are prepared to kill one another if it is not done.” George Bernard Shaw

“A veteran journalist has never had time to think twice before he writes.” George Bernard Shaw

“Man can climb to the highest summits, but he cannot dwell there long.” George Bernard Shaw

“The art of government is the organisation of idolatry.” George Bernard Shaw

“A man who has no office to go, to I don't care who he is, is a trial of which you can have no conception.” George Bernard Shaw

“Fashions, after all, are only induced epidemics.” George Bernard Shaw

“He's a man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.” George Bernard Shaw

“Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history.” George Bernard Shaw

“Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.” George Bernard Shaw