George Bernard Shaw:
(Portobello, Dublin, 26 July 1856 – Ayot, St Lawrence, 2 November 1950).
Irish playwright, socialist and theatre critic. He was a freethinker, supported the fight for equal rights for women and advocated equal pay for men and women. He was also a staunch vegetarian and opposed to animal testing. He won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1925 – he accepted the honour but refused the money. In 1939, he received an Oscar for his work on the screenplay of the film Pygmalion.
You see things and say, Why? I dream things and say: Why not?
Two percent of the people think, Three percent of the people think they think, and ninety-five percent of the people would rather die than think.
Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.
I can think of no other edifice constructed by man as altruistic as a lighthouse. They were built only to serve.
Life Is Not About Finding Yourself. Life Is About Creating Yourself.
Both optimists and pessimists contribute to society. The optimist invents the aeroplane, the pessimist the parachute.
Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
Now that we have learned to fly in the air like birds and dive in the sea like fish, only one thing remains – to learn to live on earth like humans.
Freedom exists only where the people provide the government.
