Author of quotes: George Bernard Shaw. Page 4

Twenty centuries before your days, people were just like you, lived and spoke like you - no worse and no better, no smarter and no dumber.

Beware of you who would all like to become Pompeii if you dare; for war is a wolf. and it can come to your door.

If we kill a person, we will break the law and put ourselves on a par with the gods, and this we dare not do. But you are a Roman: you are accustomed to murder, for you have a passion to rule.

Beware lest some small people that you have enslaved rise up and turn into a scourge in the hands of the gods, which will fall on your boasting and your injustice, your vices and your stupidity.

This Caesar was a great talker and a politician: he bought people with words and gold, just as they buy you now.

The path of the warrior is the path of death.

And the Romans began to rob the poor, and mastered this art perfectly, and began to establish laws by virtue of which their actions were considered decent and honest. And when they squeezed out their poor to dry, they began to rob the poor of other countries and annexed these countries to Rome and created a new Rome, rich and immense.

Whoever wants wealth and greatness must rob the poor and kill the weak.

The gods show patience with the little ones.

Listen to me, you women, clothed in seductive clothes, you who hide your thoughts from men, so that they believe that you consider them strong and powerful masters, when in fact you know in your heart. that they are foolish children.

I will only do evil and nothing but evil. And cash in on it.

I've always wanted to be a good woman. I tried to work honestly - and I was pushed around like a rag until I cursed the day when I first heard about honest work.

I am your mother, you are my daughter. I have rights to you. Who will take care of me when I get old?

Didn't I raise you to be decent? And how can you stay decent without my money, without my influence?