Quotes by George Bernard Shaw

You’ll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.

Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.

Parentage is a very important profession, but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interest of the children.

Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does.

Hell is full of musical amateurs.

Lack of money is the root of all evil.

When a man says money can do anything, that settles it: he hasn’t got any.

We are the only real aristocracy in the world: the aristocracy of money.

Until the men of action clear out the talkers we who have social consciences are at the mercy of those who have none.

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