While we ourselves are the living graves of murdered animals, how can we expect any ideal living conditions on this earth?

There is no satisfaction in hanging a man who does not object to it.

It is the inefficiency and sham of ... our schools ... that save us from being dashed on the rocks of false doctrine instead of drifting down the midstream of mere ignorance.

If at age 20 you are not a Communist then you have no heart. If at age 30 you are not a Capitalist then you have no brains.

The happiness of credulity is a cheap and dangerous quality.

While browsing in a second-hand bookshop one day, George Bernard Shaw was amused to find a copy of one of his own works which he himself had inscribed for a friend: "To ----, with esteem, George Bernard Shaw." He immediately purchased the book and returned it to the friend with a second inscription: "With renewed esteem, George Bernard Shaw.

Until the men of action clear out the talkers we who have social consciences are at the mercy of those who have none.