George Bernard Shaw Quotes

All religions are good 'in principle' - but unfortunately this abstract Good has only rarely prevented their practitioners from behaving like bastards.

There is no more ethical group on this planet than ourselves.

Our behavior is governed by principles. Living in harmony with them brings positive consequences; violating them brings negative consequences.

There is nothing so bad or so good that you will not find Englishmen doing it; but you will never find an Englishman in the wrong. He does everything on principle. He fights you on patriotic principles; he robs you on business principles; he enslaves you on imperial principles; he bullies you on manly principles; he supports his king on loyal principles and cuts off his king's head on republican principles.

Take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.

I did nothing wrongEverything I've done at this university I did the right way.

Even virtue is an art; and even its devotees are divided into those who practise it and those who are merely amateurs.

As long as the decent people refuse to believe that morality must manifest itself in every sphere of human activity, including the political, they will not meet the challenge of Marxism.

Our profession is good, if practiced in the spirit of it; it is damnable fraud and iniquity when its true spirit is supplied by a spirit of mischief-making and money catching.

As a rule of thumb I say, if Socrates, Jesus and Tolstoy wouldn't do it, don't.

All men are moral. Only their neighbors are not.

Pure motives can never justify impure or violent action.

No public man can be just a little crooked. There is no such thing as a no-man's land between honesty and dishonesty.

Living with integrity means... behaving in ways that are in harmony with your personal values.

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.

Integrity means you do what you do because it is right and not just fashionable or politically correct.

Proved right should be capable of being vindicated by right means as against the rude i.e. sanguinary means. Man may and should shed his own blood for establishing what he considers to be his right. He may not shed the blood of his opponent who disputes his 'right'.

Absolute morality is the regulation of conduct in such a way that pain shall not be inflicted.

We create an environment where it is alright to hate, to steal, to cheat, and to lie if we dress it up with symbols of respectability, dignity and love.

And that whole do-able/undo-able thing? Yeah. Need I point out that neither Ruth nor I have ever "done" anybody in our lives?

May your mind be thoroughly impressed with the absolute necessity of universal virtue and goodness, as the only sure road to happiness, and may you walk therein with undeviating steps.

You know, there's a right and wrong way to do everything.

I think that ethical behaviour is another feature of the kind of inner discipline that leads to a happier existence.

... the self respect of individuals ought to make them demand of their leaders conformity with an agreed-upon code of ethics and moral conduct.

There are no degrees in honorableness. You either are or you aren't.