Quotes by George Bernard Shaw

Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history.

Give a man health and a course to steer, and he’ll never stop to trouble about whether he’s happy or not.

We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.

Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness.

An index is a great leveller.

He’s a man of great common sense and good taste – meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.

All great truths begin as blasphemies.

A man of great common sense and good taste – meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.

Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.

The art of government is the organisation of idolatry.