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George Bernard Shaw

Read through the most famous quotes from George Bernard Shaw




While we ourselves are the living graves of murdered beasts, how can we expect any ideal conditions on this earth?


— George Bernard Shaw


#vegetarianism #ethics

First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.


— George Bernard Shaw


#curiosity #first #first love #foolishness #little

You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.


— George Bernard Shaw


#human race #knock #never #out #patriotism

We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.


— George Bernard Shaw


#happiness #more #producing #right #than

Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness.


— George Bernard Shaw


#rich #society #rich

As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death.


— George Bernard Shaw


#satisfaction #death

If any religion had a chance of ruling over England, nay Europe within the next hundred years, it could be Islam.


— George Bernard Shaw


#religion

Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.


— George Bernard Shaw


#democracy

[Chess] is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever, when they are only wasting their time.


— George Bernard Shaw


#intelligence #stupidity #intelligence

A miracle, my friend, is an event which creates faith.


— George Bernard Shaw


#faith






About George Bernard Shaw

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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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