Quotes from George Bernard Shaw

Old men are dangerous: it doesn't matter to them what is going to happen to the world.

The ultimate form of censorship is assassination.

A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it; it would be hell on earth.

Nothing is ever done in this world until men are prepared to kill one another if it is not done

I don't want to punish anybody, but there are an extraordinary number of people who I might want to kill.

The risks of liberty we must let everyone take; but the risks of ignorance and self-helplessness are another matter.

We must be conventional, Jack, or we are so cruelly, so vilely misunderstood. Even you, who are a man, cannot say what you think without being misunderstood and vilified

Beware of the man who does not return your blow: he neither forgives you nor allows you to forgive yourself

Getting over an unfavorable impression is ever so much easier than living up to an ideal.

He never does a proper thing without giving an improper reason for it.

it annoys me to see people comfortable when they ought to be uncomfortable; and I insist on making them think in order to bring them to conviction of sin. If you don't like my preaching you must lump it. I really cannot help it. In the preface to my Plays for Puritans I

Old-fashioned people think you can have a soul without money. They think the less money you have, the more soul you have. Young people nowadays know better. A soul is a very expensive thing to keep: much more so than a motor car.