George Bernard Shaw Quotes About Devil

• It is easy - terribly easy - to shake a man's faith in himself. To take advantage of that to break a man's spirit is devil's work.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Inspirational, Faith, Work

  Candida (1898) act 1

• Is the devil to have all the passions as well as all the good tunes?

  George Bernard Shaw

  Passion, Evil, Tunes

  Nelly Sachs, George Bernard Shaw, Frans Eemil Sillanpää, René Sully-Prudhomme (1971). “Nelly Sachs, Jean-Paul Sartre, George Bernard Shaw, Frans Eemil Sillanpää, René Sully-Prudhomme”

• The devil can quote Shakespeare for his own purpose.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Devil, Purpose

• When an apparent miracle happened.it proved divine mission to the credulous, and proved a contract with the devil to the skeptical.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Miracle, Devil, Divine

  "The Bodley Head Bernard Shaw: collected plays with their prefaces". Book by Bernard Shaw, p. 64, 1973.

• We are compelled by the theory of God's already achieved perfection to make Him a devil as well as a god, because of the existenceof evil. The god of love, if omnipotent and omniscient, must be the god of cancer and epilepsy as well.... Whoever admits that anything living is evil must either believe that God is malignantly capable of creating evil, or else believe that God has made many mistakes in His attempts to make a perfect being.

  George Bernard Shaw

  God, Mistake, Cancer

• Nationalism must now be added to the refuse pile of superstitions. We are now citizens of the world, and the man who divides the race into elect Irishmen and reprobate foreign devils (especially Englishmen) had better live on the Blaskets where he can admire himself without disturbance.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Men, Race, Devil

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