Quotes by George Bernard Shaw

I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it.

Statistics show that of those who contract the habit of eating, very few survive.

Animals are my friends... and I dont eat my friends.

There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it.

If women were particular about mens characters, they would never get married at all.

Clever and attractive women do not want to vote they are willing to let men govern as long as they govern men.

The best place to find God is in a garden. You can dig for him there.

I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.

Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history.

Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.

The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.

Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force.

Im an atheist and I thank God for it.

Beware of false knowledge it is more dangerous than ignorance.

What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.

Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.

In a battle all you need to make you fight is a little hot blood and the knowledge that its more dangerous to lose than to win.

If all the economists were laid end to end, theyd never reach a conclusion.

All great truths begin as blasphemies.

I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people.