George Bernard Shaw Quotes About Today

• Don't lose faith. Promise yourself that you will be a success story, and I promise you that all the forces of the universe will unite to come to your aid; you might not feel today or for a while, but the longer you wait the bigger the prize.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Waiting, Bully, Promise

• I have prophesied about the faith of Muhammad that it would be acceptable to the Europe of tomorrow as it is beginning to be acceptable to the Europe of today. ... I believe that if a man like him were to assume the dictatorship of the modern world he would succeed in solving its problems in a way that would bring it the much-needed peace and happiness.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Islamic, Believe, Men

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

• Such poverty as we have today in all our great cities degrades the poor, and infects with its degradation the whole neighborhood in which they live. And whatever can degrade a neighborhood can degrade a country and a continent and finally the whole civilized world, which is only a large neighborhood.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Country, Cities, Degradation

• We are more gullible and superstitious today than we were in the Middle Ages, and an example of modern credulity is the widespread belief that the Earth is round. The average man can advance not a single reason for thinking that the Earth is round. He merely swallows this theory because there is something about it that appeals to the twentieth century mentality.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Men, Thinking, Average

• Imprisonment, as it exists today, is a worse crime than any of those committed by its victims.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Society, Today, Crime

  George Bernard Shaw (1993). “The Complete Prefaces: 1914-1929”, Viking Adult

• Schools and schoolmasters, as we have them today, are not popular as places of education and teachers, but rather prisons and turnkeys in which children are kept to prevent them disturbing and chaperoning their parent.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Teacher, Children, School

  George Bernard Shaw (2015). “Plays Unpleasant”, p.4, Read Books Ltd

• What I say today everybody will say tomorrow, though they will not remember who put it into their heads. Indeed they will be right for I never remember who puts things into my head : it is the Zeitgeist.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Today, Tomorrow, Remember

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