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
I can't talk religion to a man with bodily hunger in his eyes.
Religion is a great force - the only real motive force in the world; but what you fellows don't understand is that you must get at a man through his own religion and not through yours.
The truth is the one thing that nobody will believe.
Is the devil to have all the passions as well as all the good tunes?
We must all share in the evils of the world or move to another planet.
While we have prisons it matters little which of us occupy the cells.
Of the three official objects of our prison system: vengeance, deterrence, and reformation of the criminal, only one is achieved; and that is the one which is nakedly abominable.
Imprisonment is as irrevocable as death.
Words are only postage stamps delivering the object for you to unwrap
Start with the belief that your life can indeed be changed, and that you have the power to change it.
All this struggling and striving to make the world better is a great mistake. Not that it's wrong to try to improve the world if you know how but simply because struggling and striving are the worst possible ways to go about doing anything!
It's just as unpleasant to get more than you bargain for as to get less.
The real moment of success is not the moment apparent to the crowd.
Education can and should do much influence social, moral and intellectual discovery by stimulating critical attitudes of thought in the young