George Bernard Shaw Quotes

George Bernard Shaw Quotes.

Property is organized robbery.

Property is organized robbery.
George Bernard Shaw
It is not enough to know what is good: you must be able to do it.
George Bernard Shaw
Nothing is ever done in this world until men are prepared to kill one another if it is not done.
George Bernard Shaw
The test of a man or woman’s breeding is how they behave in a quarrel.
George Bernard Shaw
A gentleman is one who puts more into the world than he takes out.
George Bernard Shaw
I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me.
George Bernard Shaw
Parentage is a very important profession, but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interest of the children.
George Bernard Shaw
When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.
George Bernard Shaw
A fashion is nothing but an induced epidemic.
George Bernard Shaw
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.
George Bernard Shaw
The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
George Bernard Shaw
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
George Bernard Shaw
I dislike feeling at home when I am abroad.
George Bernard Shaw
It is the mark of a truly intelligent person to be moved by statistics.
George Bernard Shaw
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.
George Bernard Shaw
Man can climb to the highest summits, but he cannot dwell there long.
George Bernard Shaw
Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire.
George Bernard Shaw