"A critic recently described me, with deadly..." - Quote by George Bernard Shaw
A critic recently described me, with deadly acuteness, as having 'a kindly dislike of my fellow-creatures.' Perhaps dread would have been nearer the mark than dislike; for man is the only animal of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid.
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“The universal regard for money is the one hopeful fact in our civilization. Money is the most important thing in the world. It represents health, strength, honor, generosity and beauty . . . . Not the least of its virtues is that it destroys basic people as certainly as it fortifies and dignifies noble people.”
“I claim to be a conscientiously immoral writer.”
“We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.”
More on Misanthropy
“I believe I have no prejudices whatsoever. All I need to know is that a man is a member of the human race. That's bad enough for me.”
“I have ever hated all nations, professions, and communities, and all my love is toward individuals.”
“Human beings are the only animals of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid.”
More on Human Nature
“Our envy always outlives the felicity of its object.”
“Some men have sighed over the abduction of their wives, but many more have sighed because no one wanted to abduct theirs.”
“I condemn equally those who choose to praise man, those who choose to condemn him and those who choose to divert themselves, and I can only approve of those who seek with groans.”