George Bernard Shaw Quotes

All genuinely intellectual work is humorous.
Creation is a miracle of daily recurrence. 'A miracle a minute' would not be a bad slogan for God.
I have a strong feeling that I shall be glad when I am dead and done for - scrapped at last to make room for somebody better, cleverer, more perfect than myself.
I want to destroy ownership in order that possession and enjoyment may be raised to the highest point in every section of the community.
If a woman can, by careful selection of a father and nourishment of herself, produce a citizen with efficient senses, sound organs and a good digestion, she should clearly be secured a sufficient reward for that natural service to make her willing to undertake and repeat it.
If I own a large part of Scotland, I can turn the people off the land practically into the sea or across the sea. I can take women in child-bearing and throw them into the snow and leave them there. That has been done. I can do it for no better reason than I think it is better to shoot deer on the land than allow people to live on it.
If I were a woman, I'd simply refuse to speak to any man or do anything for men until I'd got the vote.
If you're not producing as much as you consume, or perhaps a little more, then clearly we cannot use the big organization of our society for the purpose of keeping you alive, because your life does not benefit us, and it can't be of very much use to yourself.
In socialism, private property is anathema, and equal distribution of income the first consideration. In capitalism, private property is cardinal, and distribution left to ensue from the play of free contract and selfish interest on that basis, no matter what anomalies it may present.
My method of getting a play across the footlights is like a revolver shooting: every line has a bullet in it and comes with an explosion.
Socialism never arises in the earlier phases of capitalism, as, for instance, among the pioneers of civilisation in a country where there is plenty of land available for private appropriation by the last comer.
Socialism, reduced to its simplest legal and practical expression, means the complete discarding of the institution of private property by transforming it into public property, and the division of the resultant public income equally and indiscriminately among the entire population.
The idea of personal salvation is intensely repugnant to me when it is not absurd. Imagine Roosevelt, the big brute, preserving his personality in a future state and swaggering about as a celestial Rough Rider!
The Nazi movement is in many respects one which has my warmest sympathy.
The Old Testament God is a person with body parts and passions. The Church of England God has neither body, parts nor passions, and is therefore not a person.
The only fundamental and possible socialism is the socialisation of the selective breeding of man.
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.
While we ourselves are the living graves of murdered animals, how can we expect any ideal living conditions on this earth?
You have learnt something. That always feels at first as if you had lost something.
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George Bernard Shaw
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26 July, 1856
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02 November, 1950
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Ireland
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