George Bernard Shaw Quotes, Robbery Quotes, Organized Quotes

Property is organized robbery.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , Robbery Quotes , Organized Quotes

I loathe the mess of mean superstitions and misunderstood prophecies which is still rammed down the throats of children under the name of Christianity.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , Religious Quotes , Children Quotes

Never repeat old grievances.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , Forgiveness Quotes , Grievance Quotes

When a man teaches something he does not know to somebody else who has no aptitude for it, and gives him a certificate of proficiency, the latter has completed the education of a gentleman.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , Men Quotes , Giving Quotes

I appeal to the chemists to discover a humane gas that will kill instantly and painlessly. In short- a gentlemanly gas deadly by all means, but humane, not cruel.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , Mean Quotes , Appeals Quotes

Just as the historian can teach no real history until he has cured his readers of the romantic delusion that the greatness of a queen consists in her being a pretty woman and having her head cut off, so the playwright of the first order can do nothing with his audience until he has cured them of looking at the stage through the keyhole, and sniffing round the theatre as prurient people sniff round the divorce court.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , Queens Quotes , Real Quotes

Stop being Jews and start being human beings.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , Being Human Quotes , Jew Quotes

Hollywood keeps before its child audiences a string of glorified young heroes, everyone of whom is an unhesitating and violent Anarchist. His one answer to everything that annoys him or disparages his country or his parents or his young lady or his personal code of manly conduct is to give the offender a "sock" in the jaw.... My observation leads me to believe that it is not the virtuous people who are good at socking jaws.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , Country Quotes , Children Quotes

A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , Funny Quotes , Education Quotes

Murder and capital punishment are not opposites that cancel one another, but similars that breed their kind. It is the deed that teaches not the name we give it.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , Death Quotes , Peace Quotes

I have never admitted the right of an elderly author to alter the work of a young author, even when the young author happens to be his former self.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , Elderly Quotes , Self Quotes

Schools and schoolmasters, as we have them today, are not popular as places of education and teachers, but rather prisons and turnkeys in which children are kept to prevent them disturbing and chaperoning their parent.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , Teacher Quotes , Children Quotes

The philosopher is Nature's pilot. And there you have our difference: to be in hell is to drift: to be in heaven is to steer.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , Art Quotes , Philosophy Quotes

What is life but a series of inspired follies.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , Pygmalion Quotes , Inspired Quotes

Christianity as a specific doctrine was slain with Jesus, suddenly and utterly. He was hardly cold in his grave, or high in his heaven (as you please), before the apostles dragged the tradition of him down to the level of the thing it has remained ever since.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , Jesus Quotes , Heaven Quotes

Who are those we love? Only those we do not hate.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , Hate Quotes , Emotional Quotes

That is the whole secret of successful fighting. Get your enemy at a disadvantage; and never, on any account, fight him on equal terms.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , Fighting Quotes , Successful Quotes

[Man] progresses in all things by making a fool of himself.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , Men Quotes , Progress Quotes

Rich men without convictions are more dangerous in modern society than poor women without chastity.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , Men Quotes , Ethics Quotes

Though I can make my extravaganzas appear credible, I cannot make the truth appear so.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , Truth Quotes , Lying Quotes