George Bernard Shaw ✓

(1856–1950) playwright United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland

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[Wikidata] Irish playwright, critic, and polemicist (1856–1950)... | [Wikipedia] George Bernard Shaw, known at his insistence as Bernard Shaw, was an Irish playwright, critic, polemicist and political activist. His 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

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• Trade unionism is not socialism. It is the capitalism of the proletariat. Capitalism
• Capitalism drives the employers to do their worst to the employed, and the employed to do the least for them. And it boasts all the… Acts
• The real pleasure of one's life is the devotion to a great objective of one's consideration. Consideration
• Put an Irishman on the spit and you can always get another Irishman to turn him. Always Get
• People expect too much of one year and too little of ten. Expect
• Men get tired of everything, of heaven no less than of hell; and that all history is nothing but a record of the oscillations of… All
• To be in hell is to drift; to be in heaven is to steer. Drift
• No man manages his affairs as well as a tree does Affair
• The apparent multiplication of gods is bewildering at the first glance, but you soon discover that they are the same GOD. There is always one… All
• The Indian way of life provides the vision of the natural, real way of life. We veil ourselves with unnatural masks. On the face of… Carry
• There are only two classes in good society in England: the equestrian classes and the neurotic classes. Class
• When the world goes mad, one must accept madness as sanity; since sanity is, in the last analysis, nothing but the madness on which the… Accept
• Being hurt by someone you truly care about leaves a hole in you heart that only love can fill. Care
• How can what an Englishman believes be hearsay? It is a contradiction in terms. Believe
• The most anxious man in a prison is the governor. Anxious
• Here there is no hope, and consequently no duty, no work, nothing to be gained by praying, nothing to be lost by doing what you… Amuse
• Englishmen hate Liberty and Equality too much to understand them. But every Englishman loves a pedigree. Englishman
• The philosopher is Nature's pilot. And there you have our difference: to be in hell is to drift: to be in heaven is to steer. Aviation
• The only way for a woman to provide for herself decently is for her to be good to some man that can afford to be… Afford
• The Jews generally give value. They make you pay; but they deliver the goods. In my experience the men who want something for nothing are… Christian
• When it comes to the point, really bad men are just as rare as really good ones. Bad
• Suppose the world were only one of God's jokes, would you work any the less to make it a good joke instead of a bad… Any
• In order to fully realize how bad a popular play can be, it is necessary to see it twice. Bad
• Life at its noblest leaves mere happiness far behind; and indeed cannot endure it. Happiness is not the object of life: life has no object:… Behind
• I talk democracy to these men and women. I tell them that they have the vote, and that theirs is the kingdom and the power… Democracy

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