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
..discussing vaccination with a doctor is like discussing vegetarianism with a butcher...
A vegetarian is not a person who lives on vegetables, any more than a Catholic is a person who lives on cats.
I was a cannibal for twenty-five years. For the rest I have been a vegetarian.
I am oppressed with a dread of living forever. That is the only disadvantage of vegetarianism.
As well consult a butcher on the value of vegetarianism as a doctor on the worth of vaccination.
We are the living graves of murdered beasts.
Vegetarians claim to be immune from most diseases but they have been known to die from time to time.
We are the living graves of murdered beasts, slaughtered to satisfy our appetites. How can we hope in this world to attain the peace we say we are so anxious for?
Oh, come! That boot is on the other leg. Why should you call me to account for eating decently? If I battened on the scorched corpses of animals, you might well ask me why I did that
We are sick of war, we don't want to fight, And yet we gorge ourselves upon the dead.
Atrocities are not less atrocities when they occur in laboratories and are called medical research.
The thought of two thousand people crunching celery at the same time horrified me.
The average age (longevity) of a meat eater is 63. I am on the verge of 85 and still work as hard as ever. I have lived quite long enough and am trying to die; but I simply cannot do it. A single beef-steak would finish me; but I cannot bring myself to swallow it. I am oppressed with a dread of living forever. That is the only disadvantage of vegetarianism.
I choose not to make a graveyard of my body for the rotting corpses of dead animals.