George Bernard Shaw

The possibilities are numerous once we decide to act and not react.

Beauty is all very well at first sight; but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?

Nothing is ever done in this world until men are prepared to kill one another if it is not done.

The real pleasure of one's life is the devotion to a great objective of one's consideration.

What use are cartridges in battle? I always carry chocolate instead.

The moment we face it frankly we are driven to the conclusion that the community has a right to put a price on the right to live in it

If only for a half hour a day, a child should do something serviceable to the community

The goal of an artist is to create the definitive work that cannot be surpassed.

Of the three official objects of our prison system: vengeance, deterrence, and reformation of the criminal, only one is achieved; and that is the one which is nakedly abominable.

An election is a moral horror, as bad as a battle except for the blood; a mud bath for every soul concerned in it.

Every man to whom salvation is offered has an inalienable natural right to say 'No, thank you: I prefer to retain my full moral responsibility: it is not good for me to be able to load a scapegoat with my sins: I should be less careful how I committed them if I knew they would cost me nothing.

Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended.

Give a man health and a course to steer, and he'll never stop to trouble about whether he's happy or not.

The apparent multiplication of gods is bewildering at the first glance, but you soon discover that they are the same GOD. There is always one uttermost God who defies personification. This makes Hinduism the most tolerant religion in the world, because its one transcendent God includes all possible gods. In fact Hinduism is so elastic and so subtle that the most profound Methodist, and crudest idolater, are equally at home with it.

Thus, I blush to add, you can not be a philosopher and a good man, though you may be a philosopher and a great one.

Our way of getting an army able to fight the German army is to declare war on Germany just as if we had such an army, and then trust to the appalling resultant peril and disaster to drive us into wholesale enlistment.

The Indian way of life provides the vision of the natural, real way of life. We veil ourselves with unnatural masks. On the face of India are the tender expressions which carry the mark of the Creators hand.

The schoolmaster is the person who takes the children off the parents' hands for a consideration. That is to say, he establishes a child prison, engages a number of employee schoolmasters as turnkeys, and covers up the essential cruelty and unnaturalness of the situation by torturing the children if they do not learn, and calling this process, which is within the capacity of any fool or blackguard, by the sacred name of Teaching.

Which painting in the National Gallery would I save if there was a fire? The one nearest the door of course.

The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.

Start with the belief that your life can indeed be changed, and that you have the power to change it.