"There is in man a specific lust..." - Quote by George Bernard Shaw

“Assasination on the scaffold is the worst form of assasination, because there it is invested with the approval of society.”

“The thought of two thousand people crunching celery at the same time horrified me.”

“I'm sick of all the reasonable people: they see all the reasons for doing nothing”

“We evaluate the services that anyone renders to us according to the value he puts on them, not according to the value they have for us.”

“Whether a man hides his bad qualities and vices or confesses them openly, his vanity wants to gain an advantage by it in both cases: just note how subtly he distinguishes between those he will hide his bad qualities from and those he will face honestly and candidly.”

“It is a ridiculous thing for a man not to fly from his own badness, which is indeed possible, but to fly from other men's badness, which is impossible.”

“Religious canons, civil laws, are cruel; then what should war be?”

“Truly man is the king of beasts, for his brutality exceeds them. We live by the death of others. We are burial places.”

“Nature is pitiless; she never withdraws her flowers, her music, her fragrance, and her sunlight from before human cruelty or suffering.”