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George Bernard Shaw


(1856 - 1950)

Irish playwright


Quotations of George Bernard Shaw

"It is not disbelief that is dangerous to our society, it is belief."
(George Bernard Shaw / 1856-1950 / The Preface to Androcles and the Lion / 1912)

"The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than that a drunken man is happier than a sober one. The happiness of credulity is a cheap and dangerous quality."
(George Bernard Shaw / 1856-1950 / The Preface to Androcles and the Lion / 1912)

"Patriotism, public opinion, parental duty, discipline, religion, morality, are only fine names for intimidation."
(George Bernard Shaw / 1856-1950 / Man and Superman)

"All great truths begin as blasphemies."
(George Bernard Shaw / 1856-1950 / Annajanska)

"Martyrdom is the only way a person can become famous without ability."
(George Bernard Shaw / 1856-1950)

"Emotional excitement reaches men through tea, tobacco, opium, whisky, and religion."
(George Bernard Shaw / 1856-1950)

"At present there is not a single credible established religion in the world."
(George Bernard Shaw / 1856-1950)

"Heaven, as conventionally described, is a place so inane, so dull, so useless, so miserable, that nobody has ever ventured to describe a whole day in heaven, though plenty of people have described a day at the seaside."
(George Bernard Shaw / 1856-1950)

"No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says; he is always convinced that it says what he means."
(George Bernard Shaw / 1856-1950)

"Must then Christ perish in torment in every age to save those that have no imagination?"
(George Bernard Shaw / 1856-1950)


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