George Bernard Shaw

Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire; you will what you imagine; and at last you create what you will.

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

Every person who has mastered a profession is a skeptic concerning it.

How can you dare teach a man to read until you’ve taught him everything else first?

Dying is a troublesome business: there is pain to be suffered, and it wrings one’s heart; but death is a splendid thing –a warfare accomplished, a beginning all over again, a triumph. You can always see that in their faces.

We know now that the soul is the body, and the body the soul. They tell us they are different because they want to persuade us that we can keep our souls if we let them make slaves of our bodies.

My emancipation don’t fit your equation.

Mysteries are due to secrecy.

In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards.

Never pick a fight with people who buy ink by the barrel.

The Holy Roman Empire is neither Holy, nor Roman, nor an Empire.

God hangs the greatest weights upon the smallest wires.

The human race afraid of nothing, rushes on through every crime.

Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.

This is certain, that a man that studieth revenge keeps his wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well.

Where God does not govern, tyrants will rule.

Life on board a pleasure steamer violates every moral and physical condition of healthy life except fresh air. It is a guzzling, lounging, gambling, dog’s life. The only alternative to excitement is irritability.

Be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them.

The desire of gold is not for gold. It is for the means of freedom and benefit.

For what avail the plough or sail, Or land or life, if freedom fail?

We need the tonic of wildness…At the same time that we are earnest to explore and learn all things, we require that all things be mysterious and unexplorable, that land and sea be indefinitely wild, unsurveyed and unfathomed by us because unfathomable. We can never have enough of nature.