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George Bernard Shaw

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I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.


— George Bernard Shaw


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The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that's the essence of inhumanity.


— George Bernard Shaw


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An election is a moral horror, as bad as a battle except for the blood; a mud bath for every soul concerned in it.


— George Bernard Shaw


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Independence? That's middle class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.


— George Bernard Shaw


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When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.


— George Bernard Shaw


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You see things; and you say "Why?" But I dream things that never were; and I say "Why not?"


— George Bernard Shaw


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Parentage is a very important profession, but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interest of the children.


— George Bernard Shaw


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Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force.


— George Bernard Shaw


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Never fret for an only son, the idea of failure will never occur to him.


— George Bernard Shaw


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Socialism is the same as Communism, only better English.


— George Bernard Shaw


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About George Bernard Shaw

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Did you know about George Bernard Shaw?

After visiting the USSR in 1931 and meeting Joseph Stalin Shaw became a supporter of the Stalinist USSR. The Apple Cart (1929) was probably his most popular work of this era. Shaw's correspondence with the motion picture producer Gabriel Pascal who was the first to bring Shaw's plays successfully to the screen and who later tried to put into motion a musical adaptation of Pygmalion but died before he could realize it is publiGeorge Bernard Shawd in a book titled Bernard Shaw and Gabriel Pascal.

He is the only person to have been awarded both a Nobel Prize in Literature (1925) and an Oscar (1938) for his contributions to literature and for his work on the film Pygmalion (adaptation of his play of the same name) respectively. He became an accompliGeorge Bernard Shawd orator in the furtherance of its causes which included gaining equal rights for men and women alleviating abuses of the working class rescinding private ownership of productive land and promoting healthy lifestyles. George Bernard Shaw (26 July 1856 – 2 November 1950) was an Irish playwright and a co-founder of the London School of Economics.

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