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
Socialism, reduced to its simplest legal and practical expression, means the complete discarding of the institution of private property by transforming it into public property, and the division of the resultant public income equally and indiscriminately among the entire population.
I have a strong feeling that I shall be glad when I am dead and done for - scrapped at last to make room for somebody better, cleverer, more perfect than myself.
If a woman can, by careful selection of a father and nourishment of herself, produce a citizen with efficient senses, sound organs and a good digestion, she should clearly be secured a sufficient reward for that natural service to make her willing to undertake and repeat it.
My method of getting a play across the footlights is like a revolver shooting: every line has a bullet in it and comes with an explosion.
If I were a woman, I'd simply refuse to speak to any man or do anything for men until I'd got the vote.
I want to destroy ownership in order that possession and enjoyment may be raised to the highest point in every section of the community.
What is the use of writing plays, what is the use of writing anything, if there is not a will which finally moulds chaos itself into a race of gods.
The only fundamental and possible socialism is the socialisation of the selective breeding of man.
Martyrdom: The only way a man can become famous without ability.
We are the only real aristocracy in the world: the aristocracy of money.
Lack of money is the root of all evil.
You see things; and you say 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?'
If I own a large part of Scotland, I can turn the people off the land practically into the sea or across the sea. I can take women in child-bearing and throw them into the snow and leave them there. That has been done. I can do it for no better reason than I think it is better to shoot deer on the land than allow people to live on it.
She had lost the art of conversation but not, unfortunately, the power of speech.