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Peace
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Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous
-George Bernard Shaw
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Perception
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Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
-George Bernard Shaw
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Perfection
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If there was nothing wrong in the world there wouldn't be anything for us to do.
-George Bernard Shaw
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Pessimism
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A pessimist is a man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself.
-George Bernard Shaw
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Philosophy
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The philosopher is Nature's pilot. And there you have our difference: to be n hell is to drift: to be in heaven is to steer.
-George Bernard Shaw
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Photography
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The camera can represent flesh so superbly that, if I dared, I would never photograph a figure without asking that figure to take its clothes off.
-George Bernard Shaw
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Play/Games
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In order to fully realize how bad a popular play can be, it is necessary to see it twice.
-George Bernard Shaw
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He hates chess. He says it is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something clever when they are only wasting their time.
-George Bernard Shaw
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Pleasure
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Life would be tolerable but for its amusements.
-George Bernard Shaw
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Politics
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We mustn't be stiff and stand-off, you know. We must be thoroughly democratic, and patronize everybody without distinction of class.
-George Bernard Shaw
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He knows nothing; and he thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.
-George Bernard Shaw
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Population
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The world is populated in the main by people who should not exist.
-George Bernard Shaw
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Poverty
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The seven deadly sins... food, clothing, firing, rent, taxes, respectability and children. Nothing can lift those seven millstones from Man's neck but money; and the spirit cannot soar until the millstones are lifted.
-George Bernard Shaw
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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
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Power
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You cannot have power for good without having power for evil too. Even mother's milk nourishes murderers as well as heroes.
-George Bernard Shaw
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Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.
-George Bernard Shaw
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Prayer
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Common people do not pray; they only beg.
-George Bernard Shaw
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Prejudice
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You are all fundamentalists with a top dressing of science. That is why you are the stupidest of conservatives and reactionists in politics and the most bigoted of obstructionists in science itself. When it comes to getting a move on you are all of the same opinion: stop it, flog it, hang it, dynamite it, stamp it out.
-George Bernard Shaw
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Prison
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The most anxious man in a prison is the governor.
-George Bernard Shaw
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Problems
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All problems are finally scientific problems.
-George Bernard Shaw
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Professionalism
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All professions are conspiracies against the laity.
-George Bernard Shaw
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No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense an idiot.
-George Bernard Shaw
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Progress
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As long as I can conceive something better than myself I cannot be easy unless I am striving to bring it into existence or clearing the way for it.
-George Bernard Shaw
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Reasonable people adapt themselves to the world. Unreasonable people attempt to adapt the world to themselves. All progress, therefore, depends on unreasonable people.
-George Bernard Shaw
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Property
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Property is organized robbery.
-George Bernard Shaw
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Books by and about George Bernard Shaw