George Bernard Shaw on Religion
Browse 11 quotations attributed to George Bernard Shaw, catalogued under Religion, with dates where available.
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Attributed to George Bernard Shaw, entry #56678: "In a stupid nation the man of genius becomes a god: everybody worships him and nobody does his will."
Attributed to George Bernard Shaw, entry #80266: "Undershaft: My religion? Well, my dear, I am a Millionaire. That is my religion."
11 Quotes by George Bernard Shaw on Religion
"In a stupid nation the man of genius becomes a god: everybody worships him and nobody does his will."
"Undershaft: My religion? Well, my dear, I am a Millionaire. That is my religion."
"I heard your prayers Thank God it's all over!"
"There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it."
"I can't talk religion to a man with bodily hunger in his eyes."
"God help England if she had no Scots to think for her!"
"A man of my spiritual intensity does not eat corpses."
"Beware of the man whose god is in the skies."
"God is on the side of the big battalions."
"It is not the sale of my soul that troubles me: I have sold it too often to care about that. I have sold it for a professorship. I have sold it for an income. ... What is all human conduct but the daily and hourly sale of our souls for trifles?"
"In law we draw a line between the killing of human animals and non-human ones, setting the latter apart as brutes. This was founded on a general belief that humans have immortal souls and brutes none. Nowadays more and more people are refusing to make this distinction. They may believe in The Life Everlasting and The Life to Come; but they make no distinction between Man and Brute, because some of them believe that brutes have souls, whilst others refuse to believe that the physical materializations and personifications of The Life Everlasting are themselves everlasting. In either case the mystic distinction between Man and Brute vanishes; and the murderer pleading that though a rabbit should be killed for being mischievous he himself should be spared because he has an immortal soul and a rabbit has none is as hopelessly out of date as a gentleman duellist pleading his clergy. When the necessity for killing a dangerous human being arises, as it still does daily, the only distinction we make between a man and a snared rabbit is that we very quaintly provide the man with a minister of religion to explain to him that we are not killing him at all, but only expediting his transfer to an eternity of bliss."