George Bernard Shaw Quotes

There are certain seasons in the course of human affairs, when Genius, Virtue, and Patriotism, seems to nod over the vices of the times.

All you got to do is look around. This country's getting worse and worse and more and more immoral, and we're rotting from within.

At the rate America is decaying morally, we shall have to change our national symbol from an eagle to a vulture.

It is not the young people that degenerate; they are not spoiled till those of mature age are already sunk into corruption.

But I believe there is a decay that is eroding America, and as a result, God begins to disappear from our society.

Too often on social issues my party has painted an image of America as slouching towards Gomorrah.

Like so many Americans, I am sick and tired of watching the rapid decline of our culture right in front of our eyes.

A miserable politics awaits us when the irreligious rot flows downstream.

When a religion or ideology becomes dominant, the lack of controls will result in widening spirals of license leading to degradation and corruption.

Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.

At length corruption, like a general flood (So long by watchful ministers withstood), Shall deluge all; and avarice, creeping on, Spread like a low-born mist, and blot the sun.

In the acceptance of depravity the sense of the past is most truly captured. What is a ruin but time easing itself of endurance? Corruption is the Age of Time.

At a time when pimpery, lick-spittlery, and picking the public's pocket are the order of the day - indeed, officially proclaimed as virtue - the poet must play the madcap to keep his balance. And ours.

“This is hurting me a lot more than it’s hurting you,” he said. It was his standard line, but I knew that this time he was right. Worse than the boil was the stuff that came out of it. What got to me, and got to him even worse, was the stench, which was unbearable, and unlike anything I had come across before. It was, I thought, what evil must smell like - not an evil person but the wicked ideas that have made him that way. How could a person continue to live with something so rotten inside? And so much of it!

Adulterers in churches and pornography in the schools, you got gangsters in power and lawbreakers making rules. When you gonna wake up?

Let's acknowledge that America's increasing decadence is giving aid and comfort to the enemy. When we tolerate trash on television, permit pornography to invade our homes via the Internet, and allow babies to be killed at the point of birth, we are inflaming radical Islam.

If we lose the virile, manly qualities, and sink into a nation of mere hucksters, putting gain over national honor, and subordinating everything to mere ease of life, then we shall indeed reach a condition worse than that of the ancient civilizations in the years of their decay.

I want nothing to do with politicians. Their hearts wither away, and die out of their bodies. Their consciences are turned to india-rubber, or to some substance as black as that, and which will stretch as much.

Were the life of man prolonged, he would become such a proficient in villainy, that it would become necessary again to drown or to burn the world. Earth would become an hell; for future rewards when put off to a great distance, would cease to encourage, and future punishments to alarm.

If there's anything to learn from the history of movies, it's that corruption leads to further corruption, not to innocence.

The world is grown so bad, That wrens make prey where eagles dare not perch.

When the thinking of a people becomes corrupt, the pure silver becomes impure in its hands.

The more we take, the less we become.

Pain comes from the darkness. And we call it wisdom. It is pain.

Memories, you see, hurt. The good ones most of all.