"Altogether too many sheep..." - Quote by George Bernard Shaw
Altogether too many sheep
More by George Bernard Shaw
“My own education has been entirely controversial: that is why I know what I am writing about; and appear eccentric to dogmatically educated Old School Ties whose heads are stuffed with obsolete shibboleths.”
“The chief objection to playing wind instruments is that it prolongs the life of the player.”
“Changeable women are more endurable that monotonous ones; they are sometimes murdered but never deserted.”
More on Society
“Wherever in any society there are too many laws, it is a sure sign that that society will soon die. If you study the characteristics of India, you will find that no nation possesses so many laws as the Hindus, and national death is the result.”
“An election is a moral horror, as bad as a battle except for the blood; a mud bath for every soul concerned in it.”
“I detest the masculine point of view. I am bored by his heroism, virtue, and honour. I think the best these men can do is not talk about themselves anymore.”
More on Conformity
“The security of Society lies in custom and unconscious instinct, and the basis of the stability of Society, as a healthy organism, is the complete absence of any intelligence amongst its members.”
“Wherever a man goes, men will pursue him and paw him with their dirty institutions, and, if they can, constrain him to belong to their desperate odd-fellow society.”
“Conformity is the ape of harmony.”