George Bernard Shaw

We educate one another; and we cannot do this if half of us consider the other half not good enough to talk to.

I was convinced that Ceylon is the cradle of the human race because everybody there looks an original. All other nations are obviously mass produced.

All dress is fancy dress, is it not, except our natural skins?

Grain by grain, a loaf. Stone upon stone, a palace.

Principles without programs are platitudes.

If you do not write for publication, there is little point in writing at all.

Religion is a great force - the only real motive force in the world; but what you fellows don't understand is that you must get at a man through his own religion and not through yours.

While we have prisons it matters little which of us occupy the cells.

All this struggling and striving to make the world better is a great mistake. Not that it's wrong to try to improve the world if you know how but simply because struggling and striving are the worst possible ways to go about doing anything!

Our first duty, to which every other consideration should be sacrificed, is not to be poor.

The American Constitution, one of the few modern political documents drawn up by men who were forced by the sternest circumstances to think out what they really had to face, instead of chopping logic in a university classroom.

Life would be tolerable but for its amusements.

If at age 20 you are not a Communist then you have no heart. If at age 30 you are not a Capitalist then you have no brains.

I do not want to make my stomach a graveyard of dead animals.

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

I'm sick of all the reasonable people: they see all the reasons for doing nothing

There is no accomplishment so easy to acquire as politeness and none more profitable.

We are all victims of the violence that animals suffer... their liberation is also our liberation.

The unconscious self is the real genius. Your breathing goes wrong the moment your conscious self meddles with it.

You sometimes have to answer a woman according to her womanliness, just as you have to answer a fool according to his folly.

A man has no business to marry a woman who can't make him miserable. It means she can't make him happy.