I am, and always have been, a revolutionary writer, because our laws make law impossible; our liberties destroy all freedom; our property is organized robbery; our morality is an impudent hypocrisy; our wisdom is administered by inexperienced or mal-experienced dupes, our power wielded by cowards and weaklings, and our honor false in all its points. I am an enemy of the existing order for good reasons.

—George Bernard Shaw

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About George Bernard Shaw

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George Bernard Shaw (26 July 1856 – 2 November 1950) was an Irish playwright, critic, polemicist and political activist. His influence on Western theatre, culture and politics extended from the 1880s to his death and beyond. He wrote more than sixty plays, including major works such as Man and Superman...

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We don't bother much about dress and manners in England, because as a nation we don't dress well and we've no manners.

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Independence? That's a middle-class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.

—George Bernard Shaw

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The best place to find God is in a garden. You can dig for him there.

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A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.

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When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.

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A place for everything, everything in its place.

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Order is power.

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The task of art today is to bring chaos into order.

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Good order is the foundation of all things.

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