When you vote, you only change the names of the cabinet. When you shoot, you pull down governments, inaugurate new epochs, abolish old orders and set up new.
George Bernard ShawA fashion is nothing but an induced epidemic.
George Bernard ShawTags: humour
To be in hell is to drift; to be in heaven is to steer.
George Bernard ShawTags: control organization
Do you think that the things people make fools of themselves about are any less real and true than the things they behave sensibly about? They are more true: they are the only things that are true.
George Bernard ShawSchools and schoolmasters, as we have them today, are not popular as places of education and teachers, but rather prisons and turnkeys in which children are kept to prevent them disturbing and chaperoning their parent.
George Bernard ShawTags: education school teachers
Suppose the world were only one of God's jokes, would you work any the less to make it a good joke instead of a bad one?
George Bernard ShawHeaven, as conventionally conceived, is a place so inane, so dull, so useless, so miserable that nobody has ever ventured to describe a whole day in heaven, though plenty of people have described a day at the seaside.
George Bernard ShawBaseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended.
George Bernard ShawTags: sports
Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.
George Bernard ShawTags: life inspirational
She had lost the art of conversation, but not, unfortunately, the power of speech.
George Bernard ShawTags: humor
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