George Bernard Shaw Quotes, Responsibility Quotes, Eugenics Quotes

The moment we face it frankly we are driven to the conclusion that the community has a right to put a price on the right to live in it ... If people are fit to live, let them live under decent human conditions. If they are not fit to live, kill them in a decent human way. Is it any wonder that some of us are driven to prescribe the lethal chamber as the solution for the hard cases which are at present made the excuse for dragging all the other cases down to their level, and the only solution that will create a sense of full social responsibility in modern populations?

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , Responsibility Quotes , Eugenics Quotes

There is only one person an English girl hates more than she hates her elder sister; and that is her mother.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , Family Quotes , Girl Quotes

Atrocities are not less atrocities when they occur in laboratories and are called medical research.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , Animal Quotes , Vegetarianism Quotes

A fashion is nothing but an induced epidemic.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , Funny Quotes , Witty Quotes

Life at its noblest leaves mere happiness far behind; and indeed cannot endure it. Happiness is not the object of life: life has no object: it is an end in itself; and courage consists in the readiness to sacrifice happiness for an intenser quality of life.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , Happiness Quotes , Sacrifice Quotes

Leisure may be defined as free activity, labor as compulsory activity. Leisure does what it likes, labor does what it must, the compulsion being that of Nature, which in these latitudes leaves men no choice between labor and starvation.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , Life Quotes , Success Quotes

The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , Love Quotes , Women Quotes

He who has never hoped can never despair

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , Inspirational Quotes , Hope Quotes

I never expect a soldier to think.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , Thinking Quotes , Soldier Quotes

Life's no brief candle-it's a splendid torch!

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , Torches Quotes , Splendid Quotes

What I say today everybody will say tomorrow, though they will not remember who put it into their heads. Indeed they will be right for I never remember who puts things into my head : it is the Zeitgeist.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , Today Quotes , Tomorrow Quotes

As long as you don't fly openly in the face of society, society doesn't ask any inconvenient questions; and it makes precious short work of the cads who do. There are no secrets better kept than the secrets everybody guesses.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , Long Quotes , Secret Quotes

A nap, my friend, is a brief period of sleep which overtakes superannuated persons when they endeavor to entertain unwelcome visitors or to listen to scientific lectures.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , Sleep Quotes , Naps Quotes

Those who can’t change their minds can’t change anything.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , Change Quotes , Life Changing Quotes

Gardening is the only unquestionably useful job.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , Jobs Quotes , Garden Quotes

The truth is the one thing that nobody will believe.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , Believe Quotes , Truth Is Quotes

Stop being Jews and start being human beings.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , Being Human Quotes , Jew Quotes

A photographer is like a cod, which produces a million eggs in order that one may reach maturity.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , Photography Quotes , Maturity Quotes

I find that the moment I let a woman make friends with me, she becomes jealous, exacting, suspicious, and a damned nuisance. I find that the moment I let myself make friends with a woman, I become selfish and tyrannical.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , Selfish Quotes , Women Quotes

I aint such a mug as to put up my children to all I know myself.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , Children Quotes , My Children Quotes