3 George Bernard Shaw Quotes on Conscience

George Bernard Shaw quotes on conscience

91. The confusion of marriage with morality has done more to destroy the conscience of the human race than any other single error.

136. ...society, with all its prisons and bayonets and whips and ostracisms and starvations, is powerless in the face of the Anarchist who is prepared to sacrifice his own life in the battle with it. Our natural safety from the cheap and devastating explosives which every Russian student can make. . .lies in the fact that brave and resolute men, when they are rascals, will not risk their skins for the good of humanity, and, when they are sympathetic enough to care for humanity, abhor murder, and never commit it until their consciences are outraged beyond endurance. The remedy is, then, simply not to outrage their consciences.

197. Confusing monogamy with morality has done more to destroy the conscience of the human race than any other error.[2]