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
When an apparent miracle happened.it proved divine mission to the credulous, and proved a contract with the devil to the skeptical.
He is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature
The moment we want to believe something, we suddenly see all the arguments for it, and become blind to the arguments against it.
A thing that nobody believes cannot be proved too often.
The statesman cannot govern without stability of belief, true or false.
There is only one belief that can rob death of its sting and the grave of its victory. For without that you cannot be born again.
Start with the belief that your life can indeed be changed, and that you have the power to change it.
Any belief worth having must survive doubt
Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force.
The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
A succession of eye-openers each involving the repudiation of some previously held belief.
It is not disbelief that is dangerous to our society; it is belief.
The longer I live, the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
When a man wants to murder a tiger, it's called sport; when the tiger wants to murder him it's called ferocity.