George Bernard Shaw Quotes About Opinions

• This is the true joy in life: Being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one, being a force of nature instead of a feverish, selfish little clod of ailments and grievances, complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy. I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community and as long as I live, it is my privilege to do for it what I can. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got hold of for the moment and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Selfish, True Joy, Long

• I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community and as long as I live, it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Kwanzaa, True Joy, Privilege And Responsibility

• I have always held the religion of Muhammad in high estimation because of its wonderful vitality. It is the only religion which appears to me to possess that assimilating capability to the changing phase of existence which can make itself appeal to every age... I have studied him - the wonderful man, and in my opinion far from being an Anti-Christ he must be called the Saviour of Humanity.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Islamic, Men, Humanity

  Interview (April 1935), as quoted in "The Genuine Islam", Vol. 1, January 1936.

• I have studied him - the wonderful man - and in my opinion far from being an anti-Christ he must be called the saviour of humanity.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Men, Humanity, Islam

  The Genuine Islam, Singapore, Vol. 1, No. 8, 1936.

• If you leave the smallest corner of your head vacant for a moment, other people's opinions will rush in from all quarters.

  George Bernard Shaw

  People, Opinion, Moments

• New opinions often appear first as jokes and fancies, then as blasphemies and treason, then as questions open to discussion, and finally as established truths.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Truth, Political, Politics

• We live in an atmosphere of shame. We are ashamed of everything that is real about us; ashamed of ourselves, of our relatives, of our incomes, of our accents, of our opinions, of our experience, just as we are ashamed of our naked skins.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Real, Atmosphere, Skins

  Man and Superman (1903) act 1

• Englishmen never will be slaves; they are free to do whatever the government and public opinion allow them.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Government, Insulting, Public Opinion

  'Man and Superman' (1903) act 3

• 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

• As people get their opinions so largely from the newspapers they read... But the Press is not free, the newspapers are owned by rich men.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Men, People, Opinion

• You are all fundamentalists with a top dressing of science. That is why you are the stupidest of conservatives and reactionists in politics and the most bigoted of obstructionists in science itself. When it comes to getting a move on you are all of the same opinion: stop it, flog it, hang it, dynamite it, stamp it out.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Moving, Prejudice, Opinion

  George Bernard Shaw (2016). “The Adventures Of Black Girl in Her Search for God”, p.25, George Bernard Shaw

• If you do things merely because you think some other fool expects you to do them, and he expects you to do them because he thinks you expect him to expect you to do them, it will end in everybody doing what nobody wants to do, which is in my opinion a silly state of things.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Silly, Thinking, Want

  George Bernard Shaw (1988). “Selected Short Plays”, p.253, Penguin UK

• As people get their opinions so largely from the newspapers they read, the corruption of the schools would not matter so much if the Press were free. But the Press is not free. As it costs at least a quarter of a million of money to establish a daily newspaper in London, the newspapers are owned by rich men. And they depend on the advertisements of other rich men. Editors and journalists who express opinions in print that are opposed to the interests of the rich are dismissed and replaced by subservient ones.

  George Bernard Shaw

  School, Men, Editors

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