A man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage. George Bernard Shaw More Quotes by George Bernard Shaw More Quotes From George Bernard Shaw It is not disbelief that is dangerous to our society; it is belief. George Bernard Shaw dangerous our-society belief What is self-control? It is nothing but a highly developed vital sense, dominating and regulating the mere appetites. To overlook the very existence of this supreme sense; to miss the obvious inference that it is the quality that distinguishes the fittest to survive. George Bernard Shaw self-control quality self Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty; what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness. George Bernard Shaw rich-poor society political In literature the ambition of the novice is to acquire the literary language; the struggle of the adept is to get rid of it. George Bernard Shaw novices ambition struggle At present there is not a single credible established religion in the world. George Bernard Shaw atheism world religion Perhaps you know some well-off families who do not seem to suffer from their riches. They do not overeat themselves; they find occupations to keep themselves in health; they do not worry about their position; they put their money into safe investments and are content with a low rate of interest; and they bring up their children to live simply and do useful work. But this means that they do not live like rich people at all, and might therefore just as well have ordinary incomes. George Bernard Shaw mean children people The notion that Nature does not proceed by jumps is only one of the budget of plausible lies that we call classical education. Nature always proceeds by jumps. She may spend twenty thousand years making up her mind to jump; but when she makes it up at last, the jump is big enough to take us into a new age. George Bernard Shaw nature lying years Every Englishman believes that Handel now occupies an important position in heaven. If so, le bon Dieu must feel toward him very much as Louis Treize felt toward Richelieu. George Bernard Shaw important heaven believe You see things and you say, 'Why?'. But I dream things and I say, 'Why not?'. George Bernard Shaw famous-inspirational leadership dream Man is unique in that he has plans, purpose and goals which require the need for criteria of choice. The need for ethical value is within man whose future may largely be determined by the choice he make George Bernard Shaw unique goal men Man's inhumanity to man is only surpassed by his cruelty to animals George Bernard Shaw inhumanity-to-man animal men There is, on the whole, nothing on earth intended for innocent people so horrible as a school. To begin with, it is a prison. But in some respects more cruel than a prison. In a prison, for instance, you are not forced to read books written by the warders and the governor. . . .In the prison you are not forced to sit listening to turnkeys discoursing without charm or interest on subjects that they don't understand and don't care about, and therefore incapable of making you understand or care about. In a prison they may torture your body; but they do not torture your brains. George Bernard Shaw book people school NAPOLEON: What shall we do with this soldier, Giuseppe? Everything he says is wrong. GIUSEPPE: Make him a general, Excellency, and then everything he says will be right. George Bernard Shaw humor soldier funny Animals are my friends... and I don't eat my friends. George Bernard Shaw animal food friendship I'm not a teacher: only a fellow traveler of whom you asked the way. I pointed ahead - ahead of myself as well as you. George Bernard Shaw teaching education teacher That is what all poets do: they talk to themselves out loud; and the world overhears them. But it's horribly lonely not to hear someone else talk sometimes. George Bernard Shaw poetry lonely world And so, to the end of history, murder shall breed murder, always in the name of right and honor and peace, until the gods are tired of blood and create a race that can understand. George Bernard Shaw tired peace death It is more dangerous to be a great prophet or poet than to promote twenty companies for swindling simple folk out of their savings. George Bernard Shaw saving twenties simple Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few. George Bernard Shaw democracies-have freedom government You cannot learn to skate without making yourself ridiculous - the ice of life is slippery. George Bernard Shaw ridiculous ice life-is
