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“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

Book: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

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

“It is always necessary to overstate a cast startlingly to make people sit up and listen to it, and to frighten them into acting on it.”

People Acting Casts

Author:George Bernard Shaw

“The cinema is going to form the mind of England. The national conscience, the national ideals and tests of conduct, will be those of the film.”

Mind Film Form Conscience Ideals Tests England Cinema

Author:George Bernard Shaw

“The danger of crippling thought, the danger of obstructing the formation of the public mind by specially suppressing ... representations is far greater than any real danger that there is from such representations.”

Mind Real Greater Danger Representation Formation Suppressing

Author:George Bernard Shaw

“The curious task of economics is to demonstrate to men how little they really know about what they imagine they can design.”

Knows Men Littles Liberty Imagine Economic Design Economics Tasks Libertarian Curious Economist Central Planning Mixed Economy

Author:Friedrich August von Hayek

“Nothing can save us from a perpetual headlong fall into a bottomless abyss but a solid footing of dogma; and we no sooner agree to that than we find that the only trustworthy dogma is that there is no dogma.”

Fall Agree Perpetual Dogma Abyss Trustworthy

Book: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

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

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