Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity. – George Bernard Shaw Man and Superman, Maxims for Revolutionists.
Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few. – George Bernard Shaw Man and Superman, Maxims for Revolutionists.
He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches. – George Bernard Shaw Man and Superman, Maxims for Revolutionists.
The golden rule is that there are no golden rules. – George Bernard Shaw Man and Superman, Maxims for Revolutionists.
The art of government is the organization of idolatry. – George Bernard Shaw Man and Superman, Maxims for Revolutionists.
Beware of the man whose God is in the skies. – George Bernard Shaw Man and Superman, Maxims for Revolutionists.
Every man over forty is a scoundrel. – George Bernard Shaw Man and Superman, Maxims for Revolutionists.
Criminals do not die by the hands of the law. They die by the hands of other men. – George Bernard Shaw Man and Superman, Maxims for Revolutionists.
When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity. – George Bernard Shaw Man and Superman, Maxims for Revolutionists.
It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid. – George Bernard Shaw Man and Superman, Maxims for Revolutionists.
Home is the girl’s prison and the woman’s workhouse. – George Bernard Shaw Man and Superman, Maxims for Revolutionists.
Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it. – George Bernard Shaw Man and Superman, Maxims for Revolutionists.
Take care to get what you like or you will be forced to like what you get. – George Bernard Shaw Man and Superman, Maxims for Revolutionists.
Youth, which is forgiven everything, forgives itself nothing: age, which forgives itself everything, is forgiven nothing. – George Bernard Shaw Man and Superman, Maxims for Revolutionists.
Titles distinguish the mediocre, embarrass the superior, and are disgraced by the inferior. – George Bernard Shaw Man and Superman, Maxims for Revolutionists.
Self-denial is not a virtue: it is only the effect of prudence on rascality. – George Bernard Shaw Man and Superman, Maxims for Revolutionists.
Decency is Indecency’s Conspiracy of Silence. – George Bernard Shaw Man and Superman, Maxims for Revolutionists.
Beware of the man who does not return your blow: he neither forgives you nor allows you to forgive yourself. – George Bernard Shaw Man and Superman, Maxims for Revolutionists.
The man who listens to Reason is lost: Reason enslaves all whose minds are not strong enough to master her. – George Bernard Shaw Man and Superman, Maxims for Revolutionists.
Do not do unto others as you would that they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same. – George Bernard Shaw Man and Superman, Maxims for Revolutionists.
If you strike a child, take care that you strike it in anger, even at the risk of maiming it for life. A blow in cold blood neither can nor should be forgiven. – George Bernard Shaw Man and Superman, Maxims for Revolutionists.
A learned man is an idler who kills time with study. Beware of his false knowledge: it is more dangerous than ignorance. – George Bernard Shaw Man and Superman, Maxims for Revolutionists.
Life levels all men: death reveals the eminent. – George Bernard Shaw Man and Superman, Maxims for Revolutionists.
Kings are not born: they are made by artificial hallucination. – George Bernard Shaw Man and Superman, Maxims for Revolutionists.
If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience. – George Bernard Shaw Man and Superman, Maxims for Revolutionists.
Self-sacrifice enables us to sacrifice other people without blushing. – George Bernard Shaw Man and Superman, Maxims for Revolutionists.
If the lesser mind could measure the greater as a footrule can measure a pyramid, there would be finality in universal suffrage. As it is, the political problem remains unsolved. – George Bernard Shaw Man and Superman, Maxims for Revolutionists.
No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense an idiot. – George Bernard Shaw Man and Superman, Maxims for Revolutionists.
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man. – George Bernard Shaw Man and Superman, Maxims for Revolutionists
