George Bernard Shaw

Caesar was a man of great common sense and good taste, meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.

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

All great truths begin as blasphemies.

If all the economists were laid end to end, they'd never reach a conclusion.

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

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

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

Beware of false knowledge it is more dangerous than ignorance.

I'm an atheist and I thank God for it.

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

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

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

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

The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one. The happiness of credulity is a cheap and dangerous quality of happiness, and by no means a necessity of life.

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

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

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

If women were particular about men's characters, they would never get married at all.