George Bernard Shaw Quotes about Evil

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I am justified. For I chose wisdom and the knowledge of good and evil ; and now there is no evil; and wisdom and good are one. It is enough.

I am justified. For I chose wisdom and the knowledge of good and evil ; and now there is no evil; and wisdom and good are one. It is enough.

George Bernard Shaw

Evil, Good And Evil, Justified

George Bernard Shaw (2010). “Back to Methuselah”, p.546, The Floating Press

The greatest of evils and the worst of crimes is poverty.

George Bernard Shaw

Evil, Poverty, Crime

Major Barbara (1907) preface

Vivisection is a social evil because if it advances human knowledge, it does so at the expense of human character.

George Bernard Shaw

Character, Animal, Evil

The first prison I ever saw had inscribed on it CEASE TO DO EVIL: LEARN TO DO WELL; but as the inscription was on the outside, the prisoners could not read it.

George Bernard Shaw

Evil, Saws, Firsts

George Bernard Shaw (1993). “The Complete Prefaces: 1914-1929”, Viking Adult

You do not settle whether an argument is justified by merely showing that it is of some use. The distinction is not between useful and useless experiments but between barbarous and civilized behaviour. Vivisection is a social evil because if it advances human knowledge, it does so at the expense of human character.

George Bernard Shaw

Character, Evil, Doe

Is the devil to have all the passions as well as all the good tunes?

George Bernard Shaw

Passion, Evil, Tunes

Nelly Sachs, George Bernard Shaw, Frans Eemil Sillanpää, René Sully-Prudhomme (1971). “Nelly Sachs, Jean-Paul Sartre, George Bernard Shaw, Frans Eemil Sillanpää, René Sully-Prudhomme”

Those who understand evil pardon it.

George Bernard Shaw

Evil, Pardon

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

My only policy is to profess evil and do good.

George Bernard Shaw

Evil, Policy

The greatest evils and the worst of crimes is poverty; our first duty, a duty to which every other consideration should be sacrificed, is not to be poor.

George Bernard Shaw

Evil, Poverty, Firsts

Major Barbara (1907) preface

I can forgive Alfred Nobel for having invented dynamite, but only a fiend in human form could have invented the Nobel Prize.

George Bernard Shaw

Evil, Forgiving, Form

George Bernard Shaw (2008). “Pygmalion and Major Barbara”, p.10, Bantam Classics

That older and greater church to which I belong: the church where the oftener you laugh the better, because by laughter only can you destroy evil without malice

George Bernard Shaw

Laughter, Evil, Laughing

To a professional critic (I have been one myself) theatre-going is the curse of Adam. The play is the evil he is paid to endure in the sweat of his brow; and the sooner it is over, the better.

George Bernard Shaw

Play, Sweat, Evil

George Bernard Shaw (2015). “George Bernard Shaw: The Collected Plays (Illustrated): 60 plays including Caesar and Cleopatra, Pygmalion, Saint Joan, The Apple Cart, Cymbeline, Androcles And The Lion, The Man Of Destiny, The Inca Of Perusalem and Macbeth Skit”, p.3211, e-artnow

We must all share in the evils of the world or move to another planet.

George Bernard Shaw

Moving, Evil, World

The salvation of the world depends on the men who will not take evil good-humouredly, and whose laughter destroys the fool instead of encouraging him.

George Bernard Shaw

Laughter, Men, Evil

"The Quintessence of Ibsenism (What is the New Element in the Norwegian School?)". Essay by George Bernard Shaw, 1891.