George Bernard Shaw Quotes about Time
Old men are dangerous: it doesn't matter to them what is going to happen to the world.
George Bernard Shaw (2015). “The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more”, p.3694, e-artnow
The only time my education was interrupted was when I was in school.
Attributed in "Teaching as a Subversive Activity" by Neil Postman and Charles Weingartner, 1971.
Man and Superman "Maxims for Revolutionists" (1903)
Time enough to think of the future when you haven't any future to think of.
George Bernard Shaw (2015). “The Collected Plays of George Bernard Shaw (Illustrated): Including Renowned Titles like Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, The Inca Of Perusalem, Macbeth Skit, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion”, p.2467, e-artnow
Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.
George Bernard Shaw (2010). “Back to Methuselah”, p.470, The Floating Press
It's all that the young can do for the old, to shock them and keep them up to date.
Fanny's First Play (1914) "Induction"
We are the masters at the moment, and not only at the moment, but for a very long time to come.
Statement made in a 1946 debate to repeal the Conservatives' "Trade Disputes Act" of 1927 in "The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations", Third Edition, 1980.
Man and Superman (1903) "Maxims for Revolutionists: Stray Sayings"
George Bernard Shaw (2016). “The Critical Shaw: On Literature”, p.25, RosettaBooks
