George Bernard Shaw Quotes About Conscience

• A Native American elder once described his own inner struggles in this manner: Inside of me there are two dogs. One of the dogs is mean and evil. The other dog is good. The mean dog fights the good dog all the time. When asked which dog wins, he reflected for a moment and replied, The one I feed the most.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Motivational, Dog, Struggle

• The confusing of marriage with morality has done more to destroy the conscience of the human race than any other single error.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Errors, Race, Confusing

  "Man and Superman". Book by George Bernard Shaw, 1903.

• Until the men of action clear out the talkers we who have social consciences are at the mercy of those who have none.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Freedom, Men, Action

  Dan Laurence, George Bernard Shaw (1999). “Plays Political: The Apple Cart, On the Rocks, Geneva”, p.253, Penguin UK

• There is nothing more dangerous than the conscience of a bigot.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Dangerous, Dangerous Things, Bigots

• Most of the money given by rich people in "charity" is made up of conscience money, "ransom," political bribery, and bids for titles.... One buys moral credit by signing a cheque, which is easier than turning a prayer wheel.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Prayer, People, Political

• The cinema is going to form the mind of England. The national conscience, the national ideals and tests of conduct, will be those of the film.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Mind, Cinema, Tests

• The art of manipulating public opinion, which is a necessary art for the democratic politician, and, like other arts, is sometimespractised with greater virtuosity by knaves than by honest men (who are apt to disdain it), has a different technique in different countries. For instance, in England we excel in whitewashing: in America they excel in tarring and feathering. We strain our nerves and stretch our consciences to avoid a scandal: Americans do the same to make one.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Country, Art, Men

• You can be a thorough-going Neo-Darwinian without imagination, metaphysics, poetry, conscience, or decency. For 'Natural Selection' has no moral significance: it deals with that part of evolution which has no purpose, no intelligence, and might more appropriately be called accidental selection, or better still, Unnatural Selection, since nothing is more unnatural than an accident. If it could be proved that the whole universe had been produced by such Selection, only fools and rascals could bear to live.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Imagination, Poetry, Intelligence

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