Top 25 Quotes by George Bernard Shaw of 1348 - Page 7

I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.

I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.

Inspirational, Children, Truth

Poverty doesn't bring unhappiness; it brings degradation.

Happiness, Degradation, Poverty

I am justified. For I chose wisdom and the knowledge of good and evil ; and now there is no evil; and wisdom and good are one. It is enough.

George Bernard Shaw

Evil, Good And Evil, Justified

George Bernard Shaw (2010). “Back to Methuselah”, p.546, The Floating Press

Capitalism justified itself and was adopted as an economic principle on the express ground that it provides selfish motives for doing good, and that human beings will do nothing except for selfish motives

George Bernard Shaw

Selfish, Principles, Justified

Capitalism drives the employers to do their worst to the employed, and the employed to do the least for them. And it boasts all the time of the incentive it provides to both to do their best! . . . The reason the Capitalist system has worked so far without jamming for more than a few months at a time, and then only in places, is that it has not yet succeeded in making a conquest of human nature so complete that everybody acts on strictly business principles.

George Bernard Shaw

Principles, Incentives, Months

The business man - the man to whom age brings golf instead of wisdom.

George Bernard Shaw

Business, Golf, Men

The road to ignorance is paved with good editors.

George Bernard Shaw

Writing, Ignorance, Editors

I no longer desire happiness: life is nobler than that.

George Bernard Shaw

Desire, Life Is, Life Happiness

1895 March banks. Candida, act 3.

You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.

George Bernard Shaw

Peace, Patriotic, Race

'O'Flaherty V.C.' (1919) p. 178

Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.

George Bernard Shaw

Freedom, Democracies Have, Government

"The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw".

We must always think about things, and we must think about things as they are, not as they are said to be.

George Bernard Shaw

Thinking, Said

My specialty is being right when other people are wrong.

George Bernard Shaw

People, Specialty

George Bernard Shaw (2015). “The Collected Plays of George Bernard Shaw (Illustrated): Including Renowned Titles like Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, The Inca Of Perusalem, Macbeth Skit, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion”, p.630, e-artnow

The golden rule is that there are no golden rules.

George Bernard Shaw

Teaching, Learning, Eulogy

Man and Superman "Maxims for Revolutionists" (1903)

Principles without programs are platitudes.

George Bernard Shaw

Principles, Program, Platitudes

The sound body is the product of the sound mind.

George Bernard Shaw

Health, Mind, Sound Body

You see things; and you say, ‘Why?’ But I dream things that never were; and I say, ‘Why not?

George Bernard Shaw

Love, Inspirational, Life

The 100% American is 99% idiot.

George Bernard Shaw

Sarcastic, Sarcasm, Idiot

It is feeling that sets a man thinking, and not thought that sets him feeling.

George Bernard Shaw

Men, Thinking, Feelings

The more a man possesses over and above what he uses, the more careworn he becomes.

George Bernard Shaw

Men, Use

George Bernard Shaw (2015). “The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Lectures, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more”, p.5803, e-artnow

To be in hell is to drift; to be in heaven is to steer.

George Bernard Shaw

Life, Heaven, Hell

George Bernard Shaw (2012). “Man and Superman: A Comedy and a Philosophy”, p.203, The Floating Press

Revolutions have never lightened the burden of tyranny; they have only shifted it to another shoulder.

George Bernard Shaw

Revolution, Rebellious, Rebellion

Man and Superman (1903) "The Revolutionist's Handbook," foreword

Am reserving two tickets for you for my premiere. Come and bring a friend - if you have one. Telegram inviting Winston Churchill to opening night of Pygmalion. Churchill wired back: Impossible to be present for the first performance. Will attend the second - if there is one.

George Bernard Shaw

Friendship, Night, Pygmalion