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
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The idea of personal salvation is intensely repugnant to me when it is not absurd. Imagine Roosevelt, the big brute, preserving his personality in a future state and swaggering about as a celestial Rough Rider!
Socialism never arises in the earlier phases of capitalism, as, for instance, among the pioneers of civilisation in a country where there is plenty of land available for private appropriation by the last comer.
When an apparent miracle happened.it proved divine mission to the credulous, and proved a contract with the devil to the skeptical.
When a prisoner sees the door of his dungeon open he dashes for it without stopping to think where he shall get his dinner.
When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he will always declare that it is his duty.
When a thing is funny, search it for a hidden truth.
We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.
Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
The Nazi movement is in many respects one which has my warmest sympathy.
In socialism, private property is anathema, and equal distribution of income the first consideration. In capitalism, private property is cardinal, and distribution left to ensue from the play of free contract and selfish interest on that basis, no matter what anomalies it may present.
Caesar was a man of great common sense and good taste, meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.
The minority is sometimes right; the majority always wrong.
The only service a friend can really render is to keep your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself
There are only 2 qualities in the world: efficiency and inefficiency, and only 2 sorts of people: the efficient and the inefficient.