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I ... must continue to strive for more knowledge and more power, though the new knowledge always contradicts the old and the new power is the destruction of the fools who misuse it.

I ... must continue to strive for more knowledge and more power, though the new knowledge always contradicts the old and the new power is the destruction of the fools who misuse it.

George Bernard Shaw
Power, Fool, Strive
George Bernard Shaw (2015). “The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Lectures, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more”, p.4727, e-artnow

Physically there is nothing to distinguish human society from the farm-yard except that children are more troublesome and costly than chickens and calves and that men and women are not so completely enslaved as farm stock.

George Bernard Shaw
Children, Business, Men
Getting Married (1911) preface "The Personal Sentimental Basis of Monogamy"

I do not want actors and actresses to understand my plays. That is not necessary. If they will only pronounce the correct sounds I can guarantee the results.

George Bernard Shaw
Play, Acting, Actresses

Don't think you can frighten me by telling me that I am alone. France is alone. God is alone. And the loneliness of God is His strength.

George Bernard Shaw
Loneliness, Thinking, France

Nobody could stand an eternity of Heaven.

George Bernard Shaw
Heaven, Eternity
George Bernard Shaw (2011). “Man And Superman ( 人與超人)”, p.601, Hyweb Technology Co. Ltd.

There is nothing so bad or so good that you will not find Englishmen doing it; but you will never find an Englishman in the wrong. He does everything on principle.

George Bernard Shaw
Principles, Doe, Englishmen
The Man of Destiny (1898)

I occasionally swank a little because people like it; a modest man is such a nuisance.

George Bernard Shaw
Men, People, Ego

When a prisoner sees the door of his dungeon open, he dashes for it without stopping to think where he shall get his dinner outside.

George Bernard Shaw
Freedom, Thinking, Doors
George Bernard Shaw (2007). “Back to Methuselah”, p.55, 1st World Publishing

There are no perfectly honorable men; but every true man has one main point of honor and a few minor ones.

George Bernard Shaw
Men, Honorable Man, Very True
George Bernard Shaw (2015). “The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Lectures, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more”, p.5800, e-artnow

He who bears the brand of Cain shall rule the earth.

George Bernard Shaw
Cain, Earth, Bears
George Bernard Shaw (2010). “Back to Methuselah”, p.157, The Floating Press

Have you ever met a man of good character where women are concerned?

George Bernard Shaw
Character, Men, My Fair Lady
1913 Higgins to Pickering. Pygmalion, act 2.

This souls'prison we call England.

George Bernard Shaw
Soul, England, Prison
1919 Hector Hushabye. Heartbreak House, act 3.

Any sort of plain speaking is better than the nauseous sham good fellowship our democratic public men get up for shop use.

George Bernard Shaw
Men, Use, Fellowship
George Bernard Shaw (2015). “The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Lectures, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more”, p.3841, e-artnow

A sensitive boy's humiliations may be very good fun for ordinary thick-skinned grown-ups; but to the boy himself theyareso acute, so ignominious, that he cannot confess themcannot but deny them passionately.

George Bernard Shaw
Fun, Boys, Ordinary
1903 John Tanner. Man and Superman, act 1.

Nothing is more dreadful than a husband who keeps telling you everything he thinks, and always wants to know what you think.

George Bernard Shaw
Husband, Thinking, Want
George Bernard Shaw (2015). “The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Lectures, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more”, p.2645, e-artnow

Just as the liar 's punishment is, not in the least that he is not believed , but that he cannot believe any one else; so a guilty society can more easily be persuaded that any apparently innocent act is guilty than that any apparently guilty act is innocent.

George Bernard Shaw
Liars, Believe, Punishment
George Bernard Shaw (2015). “The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more”, p.4190, e-artnow

The English have no respect for their language, and will not teach their children to speak it. They spell it so abominably that no man can teach himself what it soundslike.It isimpossible foran Englishmanto openhis mouth without making some other Englishman hate or despise him.

George Bernard Shaw
Children, Hate, Men
'Pygmalion' (1916) preface

I am very subtle; but Man is deeper in his thought than I am. The woman knows that there is no such thing as nothing: the man knows that there is no such day as tomorrow. I do well to worship them.

George Bernard Shaw
Men, Tomorrow, Worship
George Bernard Shaw (2015). “The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more”, p.3805, e-artnow

In the arts of peace Man is a bungler.

George Bernard Shaw
Art, Peace, Men
'Man and Superman' (1903) act 3

When a heretic wishes to avoid martyrdom he speaks of "Orthodoxy, True and False" and demonstrates that the True is his heresy.

George Bernard Shaw
Wish, True And False, Orthodoxy
George Bernard Shaw (2015). “George Bernard Shaw: Collected Articles, Lectures, Essays and Letters: Thoughts and Studies from the Renowned Dramaturge and Author of Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Pygmalion, Arms and The Man, Saint Joan, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion”, p.317, e-artnow

Even a vortex is a vortex in something. You can't have a whirlpool without water; and you can't have a vortex without gas, or molecules or atoms or ions or electrons or something, not nothing.

George Bernard Shaw
Ions, Water, Molecules
"Back to Methuselah". Book by George Bernard Shaw, Acis, in Pt. V, 1921.

You can rave about Stravinsky without the slightest risk of being classified as a lunatic by the next generation .

George Bernard Shaw
Risk, Generations, Next

It would positively be a relief to me to dig Shakespeare up and throw stones at him.

George Bernard Shaw
Writing, Relief, Stones

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