George Bernard Shaw
George Bernard Shaw
George Bernard Shaw, known at his insistence simply as Bernard Shaw, was an Irish playwright, critic and polemicist whose influence on Western theatre, culture and politics extended from the 1880s to his death and beyond. He wrote more than sixty plays, including major works such as Man and Superman, Pygmalionand Saint Joan. With a range incorporating both contemporary satire and historical allegory, Shaw became the leading dramatist of his generation, and in 1925 was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature...
NationalityIrish
ProfessionPlaywright
Date of Birth26 July 1856
CityDublin, Ireland
CountryIreland
George Bernard Shaw quotes about
Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.
Power does not corrupt man; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power
If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas.
Beware of the pursuit of the Superhuman; it leads to an indiscriminate contempt for the human
An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only comfortable
All censorships exist to prevent any one from challenging current conceptions and existing institutions. All progress is initiated by challenging current conceptions, and executed by supplanting existing institutions. Consequently the first condition of progress is the removal of censorships.
I am a gentleman: I live by robbing the poor.
It is all that the young can do for the old, to shock them and keep them up to date.
Gambling promises the poor what property performs for the rich: something for nothing
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
Every unnatural activity of the brain is as mischievous as any unnatural activity of the body and that pressing people to learn things they do not want to know is as unwholesome and disastrous as feeding them on sawdust.
You will never have a quiet world until you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
The English are not very spiritual people, so they invented cricket to give them some idea of eternity
He knows nothing; he thinks he knows everything - that clearly points to a political career