George Bernard Shaw Quotes

George Bernard Shaw Quotes.

Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is

Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody reads.
George Bernard Shaw
Property is organized robbery.
George Bernard Shaw
Americans adore me and will go on adoring me until I say something nice about them.
George Bernard Shaw
It is not enough to know what is good: you must be able to do it.
George Bernard Shaw
The best place to find God is in a garden. You can dig for him there.
George Bernard Shaw
Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.
George Bernard Shaw
When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work.
George Bernard Shaw
The frontier between hell and heaven is only the difference between two ways of looking at things.
George Bernard Shaw
Old men are dangerous: it doesn’t matter to them what is going to happen to the world.
George Bernard Shaw
Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.
George Bernard Shaw
He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches.
George Bernard Shaw
Independence? That’s middle class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.
George Bernard Shaw
What a man believes may be ascertained, not from his creed, but from the assumptions on which he habitually acts.
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
What is the use of writing plays, what is the use of writing anything, if there is not a will which finally moulds chaos itself into a race of gods.
George Bernard Shaw
The natural term of the affection of the human animal for its offspring is six years.
George Bernard Shaw
The art of government is the organisation of idolatry.
George Bernard Shaw