George Bernard Shaw Quotes

Without the blessing of cowardice, the world would long since have been torn to bits.

A fool can throw a stone in a pond that 100 wise men can not get out.

Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little.

As man sows, so shall he reap. In works of fiction, such men are sometimes converted. More often, in real life, they do not change their natures until they are converted into dust.

If a man has not discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.

Life is a horizontal fall.

Men and women, empires and cities, thrones, principalities, and powers, mountains, rivers, and unfathomed seas, worlds, spaces, and universes, all have their day, and all must go.

And they are beginning to realize that the world they live in is a place where the right thing is often hard, sometimes dangerous, and frequently unpopular.

As the dead rise to live, the live sink to die, the currents are deep and raging inside.

War is life multiplied by some number that no one has ever heard of.

I realized early that unless you're willing to kill the innocent, you can't win.

Do right and risk the consequences.

The germ of creation lies in violence.

Oh, no. It costs a lot more than your life. To murder innocent people?" says Peeta. "It costs everything you are.

The only thing that you can get into without a lot of trouble is a lot of trouble.

I can't destroy things so beautiful." "Time will destroy them if you don't. Time destroys everything. But if you destroy them, it will mean something.

You cannot dissociate birth from death, creation from destruction, good from evil. Thus any art is a form of drama standing between the two extreme poles of birth and death, just like life is drama. This is not sad, because to be alive means to be mortal, to pass through.

Dr. Martin Luther King was never a man to say 'I've got this' as the leader of the movement. He wasn't always sure that his decisions were correct, because he knew every decision he made was putting lives at risk, including his and his family's lives.

If there were no contradictions and no struggle, there would be no world, no process, no life, and there would be nothing at all.

It takes two people to make you, and one people to die. That's how the world is going to end.

To die, it's easy. But you have to struggle for life.

Never fear being a petty fool it means you ain't dying

If we admit that human life can be ruled by reason, the possibility of life is destroyed.

A world without God cannot wait for us to choose the safe path. If we wait for someone else to take the risk, we risk that no one will ever act and that nothing will ever be accomplished.

We must do right and risk the consequences.