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
If any religion had the chance of ruling over England, nay Europe within the next hundred years, it could be Islam
Most people do not pray; they only beg.
The happiness of credulity is a cheap and dangerous quality.
The early Christian rules of life were not made to last, because the early Christians did not believe that the world itself was going to last.
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.
There is nothing in religion but fiction.
There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it.
The best place to find God is in a garden. You can dig for him there.
All religions begin with a revolt against morality, and perish when morality conquers them.
At present there is not a single credible established religion in the world.
When a man wants to murder a tiger, it's called sport; when the tiger wants to murder him it's called ferocity.
When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport: when the tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity
When a man wants to murder a tiger, he calls it sport; when the tiger wants to murder him, he calls it ferocity. The distinction between crime and justice is no greater.