Background Image

...

Popular Christianity Has For Its Emblem A Gibbet, For Its Chief Sensation A Sanginary Execution After Torture, For Its Central Mystery Is An Insane Vengeance Bought Off By A Trumpery Expiation. But There Is A Nobler And Profounder Christianity Which Affirms The Sacred Mystery Of Equality And Forbids The Glaring Futility And Folly Of Vengeance.

-George Bernard Shaw

...

Please Wait....
Translating....

Popular Christianity Has For

George Bernard Shaw

...

Popular Christianity Has For Its Emblem A Gibbet, For Its Chief Sensation A Sanginary Execution After Torture, For Its Central Mystery Is An Insane Vengeance Bought Off By A Trumpery Expiation. But There Is A Nobler And Profounder Christianity Which Affirms The Sacred Mystery Of Equality And Forbids The Glaring Futility And Folly Of Vengeance.

Views: 5

Topic

More From George Bernard Shaw

Hypocrisy ... Is Only Bad When It Is Improperly Used.

The Test Of A Man Or Woman's Breeding Is How They Behave In A Quarrel.

The Only Service A Friend Can Really Render Is To Keep Up Your Courage By Holding Up To You A Mirror In Which You Can See A Noble Image Of Yourself.

Give A Man Health And A Course To Steer, And He'll Never Stop To Trouble About Whether He's Happy Or Not.

If In The Library Of Your House You Do Not Have The Works Of The Ancient Greek Writers, Then You Live In A House With No Light.

Changeable Women Are More Endurable That Monotonous Ones; They Are Sometimes Murdered But Never Deserted.

Reminiscences Make One Feel So Deliciously Aged And Sad.

When Commenting On The Turmoil And Disorder Of The World, If The Other Planets Are Inhabited, They Must Be Using This Earth As Their Insane Asylum.

We Must Reform Society Before We Can Reform Ourselves.

I'm Not A Teacher: Only A Fellow Traveler Of Whom You Asked The Way. I Pointed Ahead - Ahead Of Myself As Well As You.

Democracy Is A Device That Insures We Shall Be Governed No Better Than We Deserve.

We Must Not Stay As We Are, Doing Always What Was Done Last Time, Or We Shall Stick In The Mud. Yet Neither Must We Undertake A New World As Catastrophic Utopians, And Wreck Our Civilization In Our Hurry To Mend It.

With The Single Exception Of Homer, There Is No Eminent Writer, Not Even Sir Walter Scott, Whom I Can Despise So Entirely As I Despise Shakespeare When I Measure My Mind Against His. . . . It Would Positively Be A Relief To Me To Dig Him Up And Throw Stones At Him.

When A Man Of Normal Habits Is Ill, Everyone Hastens To Assure Him That He Is Going To Recover. When A Vegetarian Is Ill (which Fortunately Very Seldom Happens), Everyone Assures Him That He Is Going To Die, And That They Told Him So, And That It Serves Him Right. They Implore Him To Take At Least A Little Gravy, So As To Give Himself A Chance Of Lasting Out The Night

I Hate Performers Who Debase Great Works Of Art; I Long For Their Annihilation.

Like Fingerprints, All Marriages Are Different.

What Is Really Important In Man Is The Part Of Him That We Do Not Understand. Of Much Of It We Are Not Even Conscious, Just As We Are Not Normally Conscious Of Keeping Up Our Circulation By Our Heart-pump, Though If We Neglect It We Die.

Use Your Health, Even To The Point Of Wearing It Out.

Inspirational Health

What A Heartbreaking Job It Is Trying To Combine Authors For Their Own Protection... The First Lesson I Learned Was That When You Take The Field For The Authors You Will Be Safer Without A Breastplate Than Without A Backplate.

Eternal Is The Fact That The Human Creature Born In Ireland And Brought Up In Its Air Is Irish. I Have Lived For Twenty Years In Ireland And For Seventy-two In England; But The Twenty Came First And In Britain I Am Still A Foreigner And Shall Die One.

Only Lawyers And Mental Defectives Are Automatically Exempt For Jury Duty.

In The Middle Ages People Believed That The Earth Was Flat, For Which They Had At Least The Evidence Of Their Senses: We Believe It To Be Round, Not Because As Many As 1 Percent Of Us Could Give Physical Reasons For So Quaint A Belief, But Because Modern Science Has Convinced Us That Nothing That Is Obvious Is True, And That Everything That Is Magical, Improbable, Extraordinary, Gigantic, Microscopic, Heartless, Or Outrageous Is Scientific.

Even Under The Most Perfect Social Democracy We Should, Without Communism, Still Be Living Like Hogs, Except That Each Hog Would Get His Fair Share Of Grub.... Whilst We Are Hogs, Let Us At Least Be Well-fed, Healthy, Reciprocally Useful Hogs, Instead Of--well, Instead Of The Sort We Are At Present.

Plato Long Ago Pointed Out The Importance Of Being Governed By Men With Sufficient Sense Of Responsibility And Comprehension Of Public Duties To Be Very Reluctant To Undertake The Work Of Governing.

The Harder I Work The More I Live.

The Universal Regard For Money Is The One Hopeful Fact In Our Civilization.

All Evolution In Thought And Conduct Must At First Appear As Heresy And Misconduct.

A Critic Recently Described Me, With Deadly Acuteness, As Having 'a Kindly Dislike Of My Fellow-creatures.' Perhaps Dread Would Have Been Nearer The Mark Than Dislike; For Man Is The Only Animal Of Which I Am Thoroughly And Cravenly Afraid.

The Worst Cliques Are Those Which Consist Of One Man.

The Truth Is, Hardly Any Of Us Have Ethical Energy Enough For More Than One Really Inflexible Point Of Honor.

If Despotism Failed Only For Want Of A Capable Benevolent Despot, What Chance Has Democracy, Which Requires A Whole Population Of Capable Voters.

I Do Not Know What I Think Until I Write It.

An Interesting Play Cannot In The Nature Of Things Mean Anything But A Play In Which Problems Of Conduct And Character Of Personalimportance To The Audience Are Raised And Suggestively Discussed.

Never Resist Temptation: Prove All Things: Hold Fast That Which Is Good.

Our Political Experiment Of Democracy, The Last Refuge Of Cheap Misgovernment.

I Feel Nothing But The Accursed Happiness I Have Dreaded All My Life Long: The Happiness That Comes As Life Goes, The Happiness Of Yielding And Dreaming Instead Of Resisting And Doing, The Sweetness Of The Fruit That Is Going Rotten.

He Who Has Nothing To Assert Has No Style And Can Have None: He Who Has Something To Assert Will Go As Far In Power Of Style As Its Momentousness And His Conviction Will Carry Him

I Can Forgive Alfred Nobel For Having Invented Dynamite, But Only A Fiend In Human Form Could Have Invented The Nobel Prize.

Liberty Means Responsibility. That Is Why Most Men Dread It.

The Devil Can Quote Shakespeare For His Own Purpose.

The Cinema Is Going To Form The Mind Of England. The National Conscience, The National Ideals And Tests Of Conduct, Will Be Those Of The Film.

Old Men Are Dangerous: It Doesn't Matter To Them What Is Going To Happen To The World.

You May Well Ask Me Why...i Took The Time To Write [books]. I Can Only Reply That I Do Not Know. There Was No Why About It. I Had To: That Was All.

It's Prudent To Gain The Whole World And Lose Your Own Soul. But Don't Forget That Your Soul Sticks To You If You Stick To It; But The World Has A Way Of Slipping Through Your Fingers.

The Only Way To Avoid Being Miserable Is Not To Have Enough Leisure To Wonder Whether You Are Happy Or Not.

Americans Adore Me And Will Go On Adoring Me Until I Say Something Nice About Them.

We Throw The Whole Drudgery Of Creation On One Sex, And Then Imply That No Female Of Any Delicacy Would Initiate Any Effort In That Direction.

Power Does Not Corrupt Men; Fools, However, If They Get Into A Position Of Power, Corrupt Power.

People Exaggerate The Value Of Things They Haven't Got Everybody Worships Truth And Unselfishness Because They Have No Experience With Them

Reading Made Don Quixote A Gentleman, But Believing What He Read Made Him Mad.

A Man Thinking Or Working Is Always Alone, Let Him Be Where He Will.

The Greatest Thing In Life Is To Die Young - But Delay It As Long As Possible.

Christianity Might Be A Good Thing If Anyone Ever Tried It.

A Photographer Is Like A Cod, Which Produces A Million Eggs In Order That One May Reach Maturity.

When We Want To Read Of The Deeds That Are Done For Love, Whither Do We Turn? To The Murder Column.

You Can Easily Find People Who Are Ten Times As Rich At Sixty As They Were At Twenty But Not One Of Them Will Tell You That They Are Ten Times As Happy

A Life Spent Making Mistakes Is Not Only More Honorable, But More Useful Than A Life Spent Doing Nothing.

There Is No Sincerer Love Than The Love Of Food.

We Are The Masters At The Moment, And Not Only At The Moment, But For A Very Long Time To Come.

If There Is Anything I Hate In A Woman, It's Want Of Character.

A Healthy Nation Is As Unconscious Of Its Nationality As A Healthy Man Of His Bones. But If You Break A Person's Nationality It Will Think Of Nothing Else But Getting It Set Again.

The Most Revolutionary Invention Of The Nineteenth Century Was The Artificial Sterilization Of Marriage.

Only On Paper Has Humanity Yet Achieved Glory, Beauty, Truth, Knowledge, Virtue, And Abiding Love.

As I Write, There Is A Craze For What Is Called Psychoanalysis, Or The Cure Of Diseases By Explaining To The Patient What Is The Matter With Him: An Excellent Plan If You Happen To Know What Is The Matter With Him, Especially When The Explanation Is That There Is Nothing The Matter With Him.

A Drama Critic Is A Man Who Leaves No Turn Unstoned.

Love Is An Appetite Which, Like All Other Appetites, Is Destroyed For The Moment By Its Gratification.

Oh, Come! That Boot Is On The Other Leg. Why Should You Call Me To Account For Eating Decently? If I Battened On The Scorched Corpses Of Animals, You Might Well Ask Me Why I Did That

Vegetarian Diet

Christianity As A Specific Doctrine Was Slain With Jesus, Suddenly And Utterly. He Was Hardly Cold In His Grave, Or High In His Heaven (as You Please), Before The Apostles Dragged The Tradition Of Him Down To The Level Of The Thing It Has Remained Ever Since.

If You Cannot Get Rid Of The Family Skeleton, You May As Well Make It Dance.

But A Mother Is Like A Broomstick Or Like The Sun In The Heavens, It Does Not Matter Which As Far As One's Knowledge Of Her Is Concerned: The Broomstick Is There And The Sun Is There; And Whether The Child Is Beaten By It Or Warmed And Enlightened By It, It Accepts It As A Fact In Nature, And Does Not Conceive It As Having Had Youth, Passions, And Weaknesses, Or As Still Growing, Yearning, Suffering, And Learning.

Just Do What Must Be Done. This May Not Be Happiness, But It Is Greatness.

No Doubt It Is Easy To Demostrate That Property Will Destroy Society Unless Society Destroys It.

He Who Has Never Hoped Can Never Despair

Most Of The Money Given By Rich People In "charity" Is Made Up Of Conscience Money, "ransom," Political Bribery, And Bids For Titles.... One Buys Moral Credit By Signing A Cheque, Which Is Easier Than Turning A Prayer Wheel.

I Never Climbed Any Ladder: I Have Achieved Eminence By Sheer Gravitation.

The Jews Generally Give Value. They Make You Pay; But They Deliver The Goods. In My Experience The Men Who Want Something For Nothing Are Invariably Christians.

Democracy Means The Organization Of Society For The Benefit And At The Expense Of Everybody Indiscriminately And Not For The Benefit Of A Privileged Class.

When People Shake Their Heads Because We Are Living In A Restless Age, Ask Them How They Would Like To Life In A Stationary One, And Do Without Change

The Vilest Abortionist Is He Who Attempts To Mould A Child's Character.

As Long As I Have A Want, I Have A Reason For Living. Satisfaction Is Death.

A Soldier Is An Anachronism Of Which We Must Get Rid.

Taking All The Round Of Professions And Occupations, You Will Find That Every Man Is The Worse For Being Poor; And The Doctor Is A Specially Dangerous Man When Poor.

I Never Expect A Soldier To Think.

I Finished My First Book Seventy-six Years Ago. I Offered It To Every Publisher On The English-speaking Earth I Had Ever Heard Of. Their Refusals Were Unanimous: And It Did Not Get Into Print Until, Fifty Years Later; Publishers Would Publish Anything That Had My Name On It.

In An Ugly And Unhappy World The Richest Man Can Purchase Nothing But Ugliness And Unhappiness.

Man Is The Only Animal Of Which I Am Thoroughly And Cravenly Afraid...there Is No Harm In A Well-fed Lion. It Has No Ideals, No Sect, No Party.

Every Girl Has A Right To Be Loved.

Build A System That Even A Fool Can Use, And Only A Fool Will Want To Use It.

Use It Or Lose It

I Tell You That As Long As I Can Conceive Something Better Than Myself I Cannot Be Easy Unless I Am Striving To Bring It Into Existence Or Clearing The Way For It.

Orchestras Only Need To Be Sworn At, And A German Is Consequently At An Advantage With Them, As English Profanity, Except In America, Has Not Gone Beyond A Limited Technology Of Perdition.

A Moderately Honest Man With A Moderately Faithful Wife, Moderate Drinkers Both, In A Moderately Healthy House: That Is The True Middle Class Unit.

Death Is For Many Of Us The Gate Of Hell; But We Are Inside On The Way Out, Not Outside On The Way In.

Imprisonment, As It Exists Today, Is A Worse Crime Than Any Of Those Committed By Its Victims.

Live In Contact With Dreams And You Will Get Something Of Their Charm: Live In Contact With Facts And You Will Get Something Of Their Brutality. I Wish I Could Find A Country To Live In Where The Facts Were Not Brutal And The Dreams Not Real.

Take The Utmost Care To Get Well Born And Well Brought Up.

Morals Are A Luxury Of The Rich.

No Man Manages His Affairs As Well As A Tree Does

From A Very Early Age, I've Had To Interrupt My Education To Go To School.

We Should All Be Obliged To Appear Before A Board Every Five Years And Justify Our Existence... On Pain Of Liquidation.

If You Do Not Write For Publication, There Is Little Point In Writing At All.

Fine Art Is The Only Teacher Except Torture.

Some People Look At The World And Say 'why?' Some People Look At The World And Say 'why Not?'

Positive Thinking

Where There Is No Knowledge Ignorance Calls Itself Science.

Social Questions Are Too Sectional, Too Topical, Too Temporal To Move A Man To The Mighty Effort Which Is Needed To Produce Greatpoetry. Prison Reform May Nerve Charles Reade To Produce An Effective And Businesslike Prose Melodrama; But It Could Never Produce Hamlet, Faust, Or Peer Gynt.

It Is A Curious Sensation: The Sort Of Pain That Goes Mercifully Beyond Our Powers Of Feeling. When Your Heart Is Broken, Your Boats Are Burned: Nothing Matters Any More. It Is The End Of Happiness And The Beginning Of Peace.

We Must All Share In The Evils Of The World Or Move To Another Planet.

I Occasionally Swank A Little Because People Like It; A Modest Man Is Such A Nuisance.

In Literature The Ambition Of The Novice Is To Acquire The Literary Language; The Struggle Of The Adept Is To Get Rid Of It.

There Is The Eternal War Between Those Who Are In The World For What They Can Get Out Of It And Those Who Are In The World To Make It A Better Place For Everybody To Live In.

Audacious Ribald: Your Laughter Will Finish In Hideous Boredom Before Morning.

If You Can't Get Rid Of The Skeleton In Your Closet, You'd Best Teach It To Dance.

The Sex Illusion Is Not A Fixed Quantity: Not What Mathematicians Call A Constant. It Varies From Zero In My Wife's Case To Madness In That Of Our Stepsister.

English Is The Easiest Language To Speak Badly.

The Secret Of Being Miserable Is To Have Leisure To Bother About Whether You Are Happy Or Not. The Cure For It Is Occupation, Because Occupation Means Pre-occupation; And The Pre-occupied Person Is Neither Happy Nor Unhappy, But Simply Alive And Active. That Is Why It Is Necessary To Happiness That One Should Be Tired.

Time Enough To Think Of The Future When You Haven't Any Future To Think Of.

Without Music We Shall Surely Perish Of Drink, Morphia, And All Sorts Of Artificial Exaggerations Of The Cruder Delights Of The Senses.

This Souls'prison We Call England.

Brains Are Not Everything.

We Learn From Experience That Men Never Learn Anything From Experience.

If You Take Too Long In Deciding What To Do With Your Life, You'll Find You've Done It.

A Man Of My Spiritual Intensity Does Not Eat Corpses.

All My Life Affection Has Been Showered Upon Me, And Every Forward Step I Have Made Has Been Taken In Spite Of It.

The Notion That The Colonel Need Be A Better Man Than The Private Is As Confused As The Notion That The Keystone Need Be Stronger Than The Coping Stone.

Golf Is Typical Capitalist Luncay.

It's Usually Pointed Out That Women Are Not Fit For Political Power, And Ought Not To Be Trusted With A Vote Because They Are Politically Ignorant, Socially Prejudiced, Narrow-minded, And Selfish. True Enough, But Precisely The Same Is True Of Men!

Every Man Is A Revolutionist Concerning The Thing He Understands. For Example, Every Person Who Has Mastered A Profession Is A Skeptic Concerning It, And Consequently A Revolutionist.

The British Churchgoer Prefers A Severe Preacher Because He Thinks A Few Home Truths Will Do His Neighbors No Harm.

Instead Of Otello Being An Italian Opera Written In The Style Of Shakespeare, Othello Is A Play Written By Shakespeare In The Style Of Italian Opera.

The Great Dramatist Has Something Better To Do Than To Amuse Either Himself Or His Audience. He Has To Interpret Life.

Something Better

The Most Tragic Thing In The World Is A Man Of Genius Who Is Not A Man Of Honor.

My Mother Married A Very Good Man ... And She Is Not At All Keen On My Doing The Same.

Disobedience, The Rarest And Most Courageous Of The Virtues, Is Seldom Distinguished From Neglect, The Laziest And Commonest Of The Vices.

The Body Was The Slave Of The Vortex; But The Slave Has Become The Master; And We Must Free Ourselves From That Tyranny. It Is This Stuff [ Indicating Her Body ], This Flesh And Blood And Bone And All The Rest Of It, That Is Intolerable. Even Prehistoric Man Dreamed Of What He Called An Astral Body, And Asked Who Would Deliver Him From The Body Of This Death.

An Index Is A Great Leveller.

I Knew If I Waited Around Long Enough Something Like This Would Happen.

Animals Are My Friends... And I Don't Eat My Friends.

The Philosopher Is Nature's Pilot.

When The Military Man Approaches, The World Locks Up Its Spoons And Packs Off Its Womankind.

Never Believe Anything A Writer Tells You About Himself. A Man Comes To Believe In The End The Lies He Tells Himself About Himself.

My Reputation Grows With Every Failure.

Learning From Failure

Hate Is The Revenge Of A Coward Intimidated.

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.

Physically There Is Nothing To Distinguish Human Society From The Farm-yard Except That Children Are More Troublesome And Costly Than Chickens And Calves And That Men And Women Are Not So Completely Enslaved As Farm Stock.

Who Are Those We Love? Only Those We Do Not Hate.

I Don't Know If There Are Men On The Moon, But If There Are They Must Be Using The Earth As Their Lunatic Asylum

Lunatic Asylums

A Married Man Is A Man With A Past, While A Bachelor Is A Man With A Future.

Just As The Historian Can Teach No Real History Until He Has Cured His Readers Of The Romantic Delusion That The Greatness Of A Queen Consists In Her Being A Pretty Woman And Having Her Head Cut Off, So The Playwright Of The First Order Can Do Nothing With His Audience Until He Has Cured Them Of Looking At The Stage Through The Keyhole, And Sniffing Round The Theatre As Prurient People Sniff Round The Divorce Court.

Parentage Is A Very Important Profession, But No Test Of Fitness For It Is Ever Imposed In The Interest Of The Children.

Marriage Is Tolerable Enough In Its Way If Youre Easygoing And Dont Expect Too Much From It. But It Doesnt Bear Thinking About.

Social Progress Takes Effect Through The Replacement Of All Institutions By New Ones; And Since Every Institution Involves The Recognition Of The Duty Of Conforming To It, Progress Must Involve The Repudiation Of An Established Duty At Every Step.

Gardening Is The Only Unquestionably Useful Job.

It Is A Monstrous Thing To Force A Child To Learn Latin Or Greek Or Mathematics On The Ground That They Are An Indispensable Gymnastic For The Mental Powers. It Would Be Monstrous Even If It Were True.

It Is Very Doubtful Whether Man Is Enough Of A Political Animal To Produce A Good, Sensible, Serious And Efficient Constitution. All The Evidence Is Against It.

Only In Books Has Mankind Known Perfect Truth, Love And Beauty.

In The Arts Of Peace Man Is A Bungler.

People Who Say It Cannot Be Done Should Not Interrupt Those Who Are Doing It.

Man Gives Every Reason For His Conduct Save One, Every Excuse For His Crimes Save One, Every Plea For His Safety Save One; And That One Is His Cowardice

Experience Fails To Teach Where There Is No Desire To Learn.

I Have Prophesied About The Faith Of Muhammad That It Would Be Acceptable To The Europe Of Tomorrow As It Is Beginning To Be Acceptable To The Europe Of Today. ... I Believe That If A Man Like Him Were To Assume The Dictatorship Of The Modern World He Would Succeed In Solving Its Problems In A Way That Would Bring It The Much-needed Peace And Happiness.

If You Say That God Is Good, Great, Blessed, Wise Or Any Such Thing, The Starting Point Is This : God Is.

There Is Not One Single Established Religion That An Intelligent, Educated Man Can Believe.

Women Upset Everything. When You Let Them Into Your Life, You Find That The Woman Is Driving At One Thing And You're Driving At Another.

You Cannot Have Power For Good Without Having Power For Evil Too. Even Mother's Milk Nourishes Murderers As Well As Heroes.

The Moment We Face It Frankly We Are Driven To The Conclusion That The Community Has A Right To Put A Price On The Right To Live In It ... If People Are Fit To Live, Let Them Live Under Decent Human Conditions. If They Are Not Fit To Live, Kill Them In A Decent Human Way. Is It Any Wonder That Some Of Us Are Driven To Prescribe The Lethal Chamber As The Solution For The Hard Cases Which Are At Present Made The Excuse For Dragging All The Other Cases Down To Their Level, And The Only Solution That Will Create A Sense Of Full Social Responsibility In Modern Populations?

The Liar's Punishment Is Not In The Least That He Is Not Believed, But That He Cannot Believe Anyone Else.

Education Can And Should Do Much Influence Social, Moral And Intellectual Discovery By Stimulating Critical Attitudes Of Thought In The Young

If History Repeats Itself, And The Unexpected Always Happens, How Incapable Must Man Be Of Learning From Experience.

Civilization Is A Disease Produced By The Practice Of Building Societies With Rotten Material.

Any Belief Worth Having Must Survive Doubt

Bible Worship, Though At Its Best It May Achieve Sublimity By Keeping Its Head In The Skies, May Also Make Itself Both Ridiculousand Dangerous By Having Its Feet Off The Ground.

Imagination Is The Beginning Of Creation. You Imagine What You Desire, You Will What You Imagine And At Last You Create What You Will.

Silence Is The Most Perfect Expression Of Scorn.

All Autobiographies Are Lies. I Do Not Mean Unconscious, Unintentional Lies: I Mean Deliberate Lies.

Clever And Attractive Women Do Not Want To Vote; They Are Willing To Let Men Govern As Long As They Govern Men.

I Would Like To Take You Seriously, But To Do So Would Be An Affront To Your Intelligence.

Science Becomes Dangerous Only When It Imagines That It Has Reached Its Goal.

Truth Telling Is Not Compatible With The Defence Of The Realm.

Telling The Truth

Thus, I Blush To Add, You Can Not Be A Philosopher And A Good Man, Though You May Be A Philosopher And A Great One.

Don't Waste Time Collecting Other People's Autographs; Rather Devote It To Making Your Own Autograph Worth Collecting.

I'm Sick Of All The Reasonable People: They See All The Reasons For Doing Nothing

The Theory That Music Has A Depraving Effect On Morals Has Now Been Abandoned To The Old Women Of Both Sexes.

All This Struggling And Striving To Make The World Better Is A Great Mistake. Not That It's Wrong To Try To Improve The World If You Know How But Simply Because Struggling And Striving Are The Worst Possible Ways To Go About Doing Anything!

We Know There Is Intention And Purpose In The Universe, Because There Is Intention And Purpose In Us.

We Must Always Think About Things, And We Must Think About Things As They Are, Not As They Are Said To Be.

Virtue Is Insufficient Temptation.

The Most Anxious Man In A Prison Is The Governor.

At Present There Is Not A Single Credible Established Religion In The World.

The First Prison I Ever Saw Had Inscribed On It Cease To Do Evil: Learn To Do Well; But As The Inscription Was On The Outside, The Prisoners Could Not Read It.

The Trouble With Her Is That She Lacks The Power Of Conversation But Not The Power Of Speech.

But Whether The Risks To Which Liberty Exposes Us Are Moral Or Physical Our Right To Liberty Involves The Right To Run Them. A Man Who Is Not Free To Risk His Neck As An Aviator Or His Soul As A Heretic Is Not Free At All; And The Right To Liberty Begins, Not At The Age Of 21 Years But 21 Seconds.

A Serious Illness Or A Death Advertises The Doctor Exactly As A Hanging Advertises The Barrister Who Defended The Person Hanged.

Serious Illness

Activity Is The Only Road To Knowledge.

Money Is The Counter That Enables Life To Be Lived Socially; It Is Life As Truly As Sovereigns And Banknotes Are Money.

It Is Dangerous To Be Sincere Unless You Are Also Stupid.

Principles Without Programs Are Platitudes.

I Must Have Been An Insufferable Child; All Children Are.

All Artists Are Anarchists.

War Does Not Decide Who Is Right But Who Is Left.

We Are Members One Of Another; So That You Cannot Injure Or Help Your Neighbor Without Injuring Or Helping Yourself.

A Doctor's Reputation Is Made By The Number Of Eminent Men Who Die Under His Care.

Trending Author

Oliver Goldsmith

Category