We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.
Weitere Zitate von George Bernard Shaw
Zum Autor"Old-fashioned people think you can have a soul without money. They think the less money you have, the more soul you have. Young people nowadays know better. A soul is a very expensive thing to keep: much more so than a motor car."
"Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it."
"A man learns to skate by staggering about and making a fool of himself. Indeed he progresses in all things by resolutely making a fool of himself."
"In a battle all you need to make you fight is a little hot blood and the knowledge that it's more dangerous to lose than to win."
"The natural term of the affection of the human animal for its offspring is six years."
"The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation, because occupation means pre-occupation; and the pre-occupied person is neither happy nor unhappy, but simply alive and active. That is why it is necessary to happiness that one should be tired."