Quotes By George Bernard Shaw

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

Hatred is the coward's revenge for being intimidated.

Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.

As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death.

A Native American elder once described his own inner struggles in this manner: Inside of me there are two dogs. One of the dogs is mean and evil. The other dog is good. The mean dog fights the good dog all the time. When asked which dog wins, he reflected for a moment and replied, The one I feed the most.

When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.

Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.

My way of joking is to tell the truth. It's the funniest joke in the world.

The liar's punishment is, not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else.

Why should we take advice on sex from the pope? If he knows anything about it, he shouldn't!

Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.

Animals are my friends...and I don't eat my friends.

Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.

Science never solves a problem without creating ten more.

A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.

You see things and you say 'Why?' But I dream things that never were and I say 'Why not?'

Power doesn't corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.

Our necessities are few, but our wants are endless.

The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.

The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that's the essence of inhumanity.