"It's so hard to know what to..." - Quote by George Bernard Shaw
It's so hard to know what to do when one wishes earnestly to do right.
More by George Bernard Shaw
“If there was twenty ways of telling the truth and only one way of telling a lie, the Government would find it out. It's in the nature of governments to tell lies.”
“There was only one virtue, pugnacity; only one vice, pacifism. That is an essential condition of war.”
“I have defined the hundred per cent American as ninety-nine per cent an idiot.”
More on Morality
“Assasination on the scaffold is the worst form of assasination, because there it is invested with the approval of society.”
“The strength of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special exertions, but by his habitual acts.”
“In law a man is guilty when he violates the rights of others. In ethics he is guilty if he only thinks of doing so.”
More on Ethics
“Self-sacrifice enables us to sacrifice other people without blushing.”
“We have always known that heedless self-interest was bad morals; we know now that it is bad economics. Out of the collapse of a prosperity whose builders boasted their practicality has come the conviction that in the long run economic morality pays.”
“My commitment is to truth not consistency.”