A statesman who confines himself to popular legislation – or, for the matter of that, a playwright who confines himself to popular plays – is like a blind man’s dog who goes wherever the blind man pulls him, on the ground that both of them want to go to the same place. George Bernard Shaw Read Quote
Why, except as a means of livelihood, a man should desire to act on the stage when he has the whole world to act in, is not clear to me. George Bernard Shaw Read Quote
Few of us have vitality enough to make any of our instincts imperious. George Bernard Shaw Read Quote
Socialism, reduced to its simplest legal and practical expression, means the complete discarding of the institution of private property by transforming it into public property, and the division of the resultant public income equally and indiscriminately among the entire population. George Bernard Shaw Read Quote
Marriage is good enough for the lower classes: they have facilities for desertion that are denied to us. George Bernard Shaw Read Quote
If I were a woman, I’d simply refuse to speak to any man or do anything for men until I’d got the vote. George Bernard Shaw Read Quote