George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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Our natural dispositions may be good; but we have been badly brought up, and are full of anti-social personal ambitions and prejudices and snobberies. Had we not better teach our children to be better citizens than ourselves? We are not doing that at present. The Russians ARE. That is my last word. Think over it.
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Parentage is a very important profession, but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interest of the children.
[Parenthood]
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Pasteboard pies and paper flowers are being banished from the stage by the growth of that power of accurate observation which is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it...
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Patriotism is a pernicious, psychopathic form of idiocy.
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Patriotism is, fundamentally, a conviction that a particular country is the best in the world because you were born in it...
[Patriotism]
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Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous.
[Peace]
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People are always blaming circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them.
[Circumstance]
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People become attached to their burdens sometimes more than the burdens are attached to them.
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People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it.
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Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family.
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Perhaps woman's art is of woman's life a thing apart, 'tis man's whole existence; just as love is said to be the reverse - though it isn't.
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Physically there is nothing to distinguish human society from the farm-yard except that children are more troublesome and costly than chickens and calves, and that men and women are not so completely enslaved as farm stock.
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Political necessities sometimes turn out to be political mistakes.
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Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.
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Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
[Change]
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Property is organized robbery.
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Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman, but believing what he read made him mad.
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Reformers have the idea that change can be achieved by brute sanity.
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Religion is a great force - the only real motive force in the world; but you must get at a man through his own religion, not through yours.
[Religion]
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Reminiscences make one feel so deliciously aged and sad.
[Memory]
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