George Bernard Shaw Rebel Quotations

Nothing is worth doing unless the consequences may be serious.

Kings are not born: they are made by artificial hallucination.

Property, said Proudhon, is theft. This is the only perfect truism that has been uttered on the subject.

Revolutions have never lightened the burden of tyranny; they have only shifted it to another shoulder.

If the wicked flourish and the fittest survive, Nature must be the god of rascals.

Obedience simulates subordination as fear of the police simulates honesty.

Crime is only the retail department of what, in wholesale, we call penal law.

Assasination on the scaffold is the worst form of assasination, because there it is invested with the approval of society.

The vilest abortionist is he who attempts to mould a child's character.

No doubt it is easy to demostrate that property will destroy society unless society destroys it.

I enjoy convalescence. It is the part that makes the illness worth while.