George Bernard Shaw, (1856-1950) Irish comic dramatist Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quote Share via Email Print this Page [31-60] of 65 George Bernard Shaw quotesGeorge Bernard Shaw QuotesGeorge Bernard Shaw Previous 30 quotes Next 30 quotes Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.~ George Bernard Shaw 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.~ George Bernard Shaw I also made it quite clear that Socialism means equality of income or nothing, and that 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.~ George Bernard Shaw It is the deed that teaches, not the name we give it. Murder and capital punishment are not opposites that cancel one another, but similars that breed their own kind.~ George Bernard Shaw Imprisonment, as it exists today, is a worse crime than any of those committed by its victims.~ George Bernard Shaw The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact than a drunken man is happier than a sober one.~ George Bernard Shaw The right to know is like the right to live. It is fundamental and unconditional in its assumption that knowledge, like life, is a desirable thing.~ George Bernard Shaw The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.~ George Bernard Shaw A fashion is nothing but an induced epidemic.~ George Bernard Shaw A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.~ George Bernard Shaw Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.~ George Bernard Shaw Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.~ 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 I can forgive Alfred Nobel for having invented dynamite, but only a fiend in human form could have invented the Nobel Prize.~ George Bernard Shaw If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.~ George Bernard Shaw If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.~ George Bernard Shaw Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.~ George Bernard Shaw It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.~ George Bernard Shaw It is the deed that teaches, not the name we give it. Murder and capital punishment are not opposites that cancel one another, but similars that breed their own kind.~ George Bernard Shaw Martyrdom is the only way a person can become famous without ability.~ George Bernard Shaw My method is to take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say, and then to say it with the utmost levity.~ George Bernard Shaw Nobody can live in society without conventions. The reason why sensible people are as conventional as they can bear to be is that conventionality saves so much time and thought and trouble and social friction of one sort or another that it leaves them much more leisure time for freedom than unconventionality does.~ George Bernard Shaw One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't.~ George Bernard Shaw The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.~ George Bernard Shaw The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.~ George Bernard Shaw The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.~ George Bernard Shaw There are no secrets better kept than the secrets that everybody guesses.~ George Bernard Shaw This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; the being a force of nature instead of a feverish selfish clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy. I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community and as long as I live it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can. I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work, the more I live. I rejoice in life for it's own sake. Life is no "brief candle" to me. It is sort of a splendid torch which I have a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it over to future generations.~ George Bernard Shaw We don't bother much about dress and manners in England, because as a nation we don't dress well and we've no manners.~ George Bernard Shaw When a thing is funny, search it carefully for a hidden truth.~ George Bernard Shaw Previous 30 quotes Next 30 quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print