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
Those who minister to poverty and disease are accomplices in the two worst of all the crimes.
Obedience simulates subordination as fear of the police simulates honesty.
Crime is only the retail department of what, in wholesale, we call penal law.
Assasination on the scaffold is the worst form of assasination, because there it is invested with the approval of society.
The vilest abortionist is he who attempts to mould a child's character.
No community has ever yet passed beyond the initial phases in which its pugnacity and fanaticism enabled it to found a nation, and its cupidity to establish and develop a commercial civilization.
What is really important in Man is the part of him that we do not understand. Of much of it we are not even conscious, just as we are not normally conscious of keeping up our circulation by our heart-pump, though if we neglect it we die.
No doubt it is easy to demostrate that property will destroy society unless society destroys it.
A revolutionist is one who desires to discard the existing social order and try another.
Altogether too many sheep
I prefer the man who calls his nonsense a mystery to him who who pretends it is a weighed, measured, analyzed fact.
[...] any fool can make a discovery. Every baby has to discover more in the first years of its life than Roger Bacon ever discovered in his laboratory.
Those who understand the steam engine and the electric telegraph spend their lives in trying to replace them with something better.
God help England if she had no Scots to think for her.