“Just as the liar's punishment is, not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe any one else; so a guilty society can more easily be persuaded that any apparently innocent act is guilty than that any apparently guilty act is innocent.”— George Bernard Shaw, en.wikiquote.orgTagged: Liar, punishment, Believe, guilty, Society
“When we come to creative art, to the living word of a man delivering a message to his own time, it is clear that any attempt to alter this later on is simply fraud and forgery.”— George Bernard Shaw, en.wikiquote.orgTagged: Creative, Art, Living, Word, deliver
“In the case of a work which is a mere exhibition of skill in conventional art, there may be some excuse for the delusion that the longer the artist works on it the nearer he will bring it to perfection. Yet even the victims of this delusion must see that there is an age limit to the process, and tha…”— George Bernard Shaw, en.wikiquote.orgTagged: Work, exhibition, skill, conventional, Art
“I have never admitted the right of an elderly author to alter the work of a young author, even when the young author happens to be his former self.”— George Bernard Shaw, en.wikiquote.orgTagged: Right, Elderly, entitle, Work, young
“Socialists must be in favor of an aristocratic form of government. We must have the best men for the job . . . In the dictator you must have a man who has not only the power to govern but the force of character to impose himself as dictator whether you like him or not.”— George Bernard Shaw, en.wikiquote.orgTagged: Socialists, aristocratic, aristocrat, Government, dictator
“But no public man in these islands ever believes that the Bible means what it says: he is always convinced that it says what he means; and I have no reason to hope that Mr Coote may be an exception to the rule.”— George Bernard Shaw, en.wikiquote.orgTagged: public, Man, Believe, Belief, Bible
“Pasteboard pies and paper flowers are being banished from the stage by the growth of that power of accurate observation which is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it…”— George Bernard Shaw, en.wikiquote.orgTagged: pies, Flowers, banished, stage, pasteboard