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George Bernard Shaw on Religion

1856–1950 Ireland

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11 quotes

I can't talk religion to a man with bodily hunger in his eyes.

Major Barbara (1905)

Religion is a great force — the only real motive force in the world; but what you fellows don't understand is that you must get at a man through his own religion and not through yours.

Getting Married (1908)

There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it.

The art of government is the organization of idolatry.

Man and Superman (1903)

Vitality in a woman is a blind fury of creation.

Man and Superman (1903)

You are all missionaries and proselytizers trying to uproot the native religion from your neighbor's flowerbeds and plant your own in its place.

Getting Married (1908)

Never forget that if you leave your law to judges and your religion to bishops, you will presently find yourself without either law or religion.

Getting Married (1908)

A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of Hell.

Misalliance (1910)

Death is for many of us the gate of hell; but we are inside on the way out, not outside on the way in.

A Treatise on Parents and Children (1910)

Heaven, as conventionally conceived, is a place so inane, so dull, so useless, so miserable, that nobody has ever ventured to describe a whole day in heaven, though plenty of people have described a day at the seaside.

A Treatise On Parents And Children (1910)

Undershaft: My religion? Well, my dear, I am a Millionaire. That is my religion.

Major Barbara (1905)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: George Bernard Shaw (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.