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
George Bernard ShawThere was only one virtue, pugnacity; only one vice, pacifism. That is an essential condition of war.
George Bernard ShawThe right to know is like the right to live. It is fundamental and unconditional in its assumption that knowledge, like life, is a desirable thing.
George Bernard ShawA modern gentleman [rich person] is necessarily the enemy of his country. Even in war he does not fight to defend it, but to prevent his power of preying on it from passing to a foreigner.
George Bernard Shaw