We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it. George Bernard Shaw More Quotes by George Bernard Shaw More Quotes From George Bernard Shaw Make money and the whole nation will conspire to call you a gentleman. George Bernard Shaw prosperitymaking-moneygentleman My religion? Well, my dear, I am a Millionaire. That is my religion. George Bernard Shaw millionairedearreligion Music is the brandy of the damned. George Bernard Shaw brandymusic-ismusic My schooling not only failed to teach me what it professed to be teaching, but prevented me from being educated to an extent which infuriates me when I think of all I might have learned at home by myself. George Bernard Shaw learningteachingeducation Beauty is all very well at first sight; but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days? George Bernard Shaw humorbeautyfunny The happiness of credulity is a cheap and dangerous quality. George Bernard Shaw if-there-is-a-godatheistreligion Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity. George Bernard Shaw weddingmarriageopportunity Justice is justice though it's always delayed and finally done only by mistake. George Bernard Shaw donemistakejustice Revolutionary moments attract those who are not good enough for established institutions as well as those who are too good for them. George Bernard Shaw not-good-enoughrevolutionmoments An election is a moral horror, as bad as a battle except for the blood; a mud bath for every soul concerned in it. George Bernard Shaw soulcourageblood 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. George Bernard Shaw realexpressionhands The real pleasure of one's life is the devotion to a great objective of one's consideration. George Bernard Shaw realgoallife-is The Anti-Vivisector does not deny that physiologists must make experiments and even take chances with new methods. He says that they must not seek knowledge by criminal methods, just as they must not make money by criminal methods. He does not object to Galileo dropping cannon balls from the top of the leaning tower of Pisa; but he would object to shoving off two dogs or American tourists. George Bernard Shaw doganimaltwo New opinions often appear first as jokes and fancies, then as blasphemies and treason, then as questions open to discussion, and finally as established truths. George Bernard Shaw politicspoliticaltruth In a stupid nation the man of genius becomes a god : everybody worships him and nobody does his will. George Bernard Shaw stupiddoemen From a very early age, I've had to interrupt my education to go to school. George Bernard Shaw educationalinspirationalschool Christianity might be a good thing if anyone ever tried it. George Bernard Shaw stupiditymightreligion Keep away from books and from men who get their ideas from books, and your own books will always be fresh. George Bernard Shaw menbookideas Science is always simple and always profound. It is only the half-truths that are dangerous. George Bernard Shaw simpleprofoundscience Dogmatic toleration is nonsense: I would no more tolerate the teaching of Calvinism to children if I had power to persecute it than the British Raj tolerated suttee in India. Every civilized authority must draw a line between the tolerable and the intolerable. George Bernard Shaw toleranceteachingchildren
