George Bernard Shaw Quotes

Nothing in our times has become so unattractive as virtue.

In today's society, looking good and feeling good often trumps doing good and being good. And some people don't know the difference anymore.

As our own species is in the process of proving, one cannot have superior science and inferior morals. The combination is unstable and self-destroying.

You're fortunate when you can afford to be virtuous.

Lord, give me the wisdom to know what's right and the courage to do what's right-even when it's hard.

Fundamentally, the force that rules the world is conduct, whether it be moral or immoral. If it is moral, at least there may be hope for the world. If immoral, there is not only no hope, but no prospect of anything but destruction of all that has been accomplished during the last 5,000 years.

To be great in our times too often means to have great prosperity and no moral magnanimity at all.

Man's sense of Morality tends to decrease as his Power increases

Corruption hates what is not corrupt.

Integrity, the choice between what's convenient and what's right.

What is the chief end of man?-to get rich. In what way?-dishonestly if we can; honestly if we must.

Honor is honesty to what is, not blind duty to what you wish to be.

Don't throw away your conscience.

Modesty, that perennial flower planted instinctively in the human breast, blooms therein only as continence guards and virtue keeps.

This party spirit has so ill an effect on our morals, it has likewise a very great one upon our judgments.

I do not believe the United States is well served by a policy that says it is OK to be immoral in any way.

Ethics without virtue is an illusion. What is the highest purpose of ethics? It is to make a person good, that is virtuous.

But, most important, we must not become as base and treacherous as our enemies.

It is but shaping the bribe to the taste, and every one has his price.

It is always so much easier to be moral than it is to be spiritual.

No one is perfect but without honesty you've got nothing.

Men love everything but righteousness and fear everything but God.

In the darkest hour through which a human soul can pass, whatever else is doubtful, this at least is certain. If there be no God and no future state, yet even then it is better to be generous than selfish, better to be chaste than licentious, better to be true than false, better to be brave than to be a coward.

I don't want to put the world to rights... I just don't like people who put the world to wrongs.