George Bernard Shaw quote: The notion that the colonel need be a

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“We should have had socialism already, but for the socialists, am quite willing to drop the name if dropping it will help me to get the thing.”

Should Should Have Socialism

Author:George Bernard Shaw

“I ... must continue to strive for more knowledge and more power, though the new knowledge always contradicts the old and the new power is the destruction of the fools who misuse it.”

Power Fool Destruction Strive Misuse More Knowledge New Knowledge

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Source: The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Lectures, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more

“A third variety of drama ... begins as tragedy with scraps of fun in it ... and ends in comedy without mirth in it, the place of mirth being taken by a more or less bitter and critical irony.”

Ends Fun Taken Comedy Drama Thirds Tragedy Critical Bitter Variety Irony Scrap Mirth

Author:George Bernard Shaw

“Hypocrisy ... is only bad when it is improperly used.”

Used Hypocrisy

Author:George Bernard Shaw

“I must ... warn my readers that my attacks are directed against themselves, not against my stage figures.”

Stage Figures Reader Warning

Author:George Bernard Shaw

“Whenever an obviously well founded statement is made in England by a person specially well acquainted with the facts, that unlucky person is instantly and frantically contradicted by all the people who obviously know nothing about it.”

People Knows Wells Persons Made Facts England Statements Unlucky

Author:George Bernard Shaw