George Bernard Shaw Honest Quotations

Truth telling is not compatible with the defence of the realm.

You have to choose between trusting to the natural stability of gold and the natural stability of the honesty and intelligence of the members of the government. And, with due respect to these gentlemen, I advise you, as long as the capitalist system lasts, to vote for gold.

Absolute honesty is as absurd an abstraction as an absolute temperature or an absolute value.

Obedience simulates subordination as fear of the police simulates honesty.

The truth is, hardly any of us have ethical energy enough for more than one really inflexible point of honor.

You have a choice of trusting the natural stability of gold, or the honesty and intelligence of members of government.

It is not true that men can be divided into absolutely honest persons and absolutely dishonest ones. Our honesty varies with the strain put on it.

You are all alike, you respectable people. You can't tell me the bursting strain of a ten-inch gun, which is a very simple matter;but you all think you can tell me the bursting strain of a man under temptation. You daren't handle high explosives; but you're all ready to handle honesty and truth and justice and the whole duty of man, and kill one another at that game. What a country! What a world!

We must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.

It is said that every people has the Government it deserves. It is more to the point that every Government has the electorate it deserves; for the orator of the front bench can edify or debauch an ignorant electorate at will.

The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that's the essence of inhumanity.