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George Bernard Shaw
George Bernard Shaw

George Bernard Shaw (July 26, 1856 - November 2, 1950) was an Irish-British playwright, critic, and socialist. He is renowned for his satirical and witty dramatic works. more

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“What is really important in Man is the part of him that we do not understand. Of much of it we are not even conscious, just as we are not normally conscious of keeping up our circulation by our heart-pump, though if we neglect it we die.”

“No community has ever yet passed beyond the initial phases in which its pugnacity and fanaticism enabled it to found a nation, and its cupidity to establish and develop a commercial civilization.”

“The vilest abortionist is he who attempts to mould a child's character.”

“Crime is only the retail department of what, in wholesale, we call penal law.”

“Property, said Proudhon, is theft. This is the only perfect truism that has been uttered on the subject.”

“Obedience simulates subordination as fear of the police simulates honesty.”

“Those who minister to poverty and disease are accomplices in the two worst of all the crimes.”

“If the wicked flourish and the fittest survive, Nature must be the god of rascals.”