In the arts of life, man invents nothing; but in the arts of death he outdoes Nature herself, and produces by chemistry and machinery all the slaughter of plague, pestilence, and famine.

Quote by George Bernard Shaw

Topics: Art Quotes, Nature Quotes

The art of government is the organization of idolatry

The art of government is the organization of idolatry

We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility...

We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility...

You can easily find people who are ten times as rich at sixty as they...

You can easily find people who are ten times as rich at sixty as they...

The love of economy is the root of all virtue.

The love of economy is the root of all virtue.

Youth, which is forgiven everything, forgives itself nothing: age, which forgives itself everything, is forgiven...

Youth, which is forgiven everything, forgives itself nothing: age, which forgives itself everything, is forgiven...

The sincerest love is the love of food.

The sincerest love is the love of food.

A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on...

A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on...

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to...

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to...

Success covers a multitude of blunders

Success covers a multitude of blunders

The only secrets are the secrets that keep themselves.

The only secrets are the secrets that keep themselves.

If there was nothing wrong in the world there wouldn't be anything for us to...

If there was nothing wrong in the world there wouldn't be anything for us to...

A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of...

A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of...

Newspapers are unable, seemingly to discriminate between a bicycle accident and the collapse of civilization

Newspapers are unable, seemingly to discriminate between a bicycle accident and the collapse of civilization

We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth...

We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth...

The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the...

The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the...

Schools must not become the agencies through which propaganda advocated by any section of society...

Schools must not become the agencies through which propaganda advocated by any section of society...

I'm an atheist and I thank God for it.

I'm an atheist and I thank God for it.

Better never than late.

Better never than late.

If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it...

If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it...

My reputation grows with every failure.

My reputation grows with every failure.