George Bernard Shaw
143 quotations
I'm an atheist and I thank God for it.
He knows nothing; and he thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.
The world is populated in the main by people who should not exist.
Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.
Common people do not pray; they only beg.
The most anxious man in a prison is the governor.
All problems are finally scientific problems.
All professions are conspiracies against the laity.
All progress means war with society.
Property is organized robbery.
Better never than late.
The test of a man or woman's breeding is how they behave in a quarrel.
No question is so difficult to answer as that which the answer is obvious.
I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.
Nothing is ever accomplished by a reasonable man.
There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it.
My religion? Well, my dear, I am a Millionaire. That is my religion.
My reputation grew with every failure.
What is the matter with the poor is poverty; what is the matter with the rich is uselessness.
The more I see of the moneyed classes, the more I understand the guillotine.
The golden rule is that there are no golden rules.
Vulgarity in a king flatters the majority of the nation.
An asylum for the sane would be empty in America.
Science becomes dangerous only when it imagines that it has reached its goal.
Science is always wrong, it never solves a problem without creating ten more.