Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force.
From George Bernard Shaw
An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable.
The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and about all time.
When a man says money can do anything, that settles it: he hasn't got any.
Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.
In this world there is always danger for those who are afraid of it.
Nothing is worth doing unless the consequences may be serious.
Every man over forty is a scoundrel.
Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended.
Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart's desire; the other is to get it.
11 perspectives
8 perspectives
7 perspectives
4 perspectives
3 perspectives
2 perspectives