George Bernard Shaw

The worst sin… is… to be indifferent.

Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.

The art of government is the organization of idolatry. The bureaucracy consists of functionaries; the aristocracy, of idols; the democracy, of idolaters. The populace cannot understand the bureaucracy: it can only worship the national idols.

Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books nobody reads.

Give a man health and a course to steer, and he’ll never stop to trouble about whether he’s happy or not.

If women were as fastidious as men, morally or physically, there would be an end of the race.

Children sweeten labours, but they make misfortunes more bitter.

The way by which you may get money almost without exception leads downward.

To delay justice, is injustice.

Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

Cure the disease and kill the patient.

Slanderers do not hurt me because they do not hit me.

New arts destroy the old.

Envy is the tax which all distinction must pay.

Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait.

We have more than we use.

History may not repeat itself, but it does rhyme a lot

If you miss the present moment, you miss your appointment with life. That is very serious!

Errors look so very ugly in persons of small means – one feels they are taking quite a liberty in going astray; whereas people of fortune may naturally indulge in a few delinquencies.

The torpid artist seeks inspiration at any cost, by virtue or by vice, by friend or by fiend, by prayer or by wine.

It were endless to dispute upon everything that is disputable.