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George Bernard Shaw

George Bernard Shaw föddes den 26 juli 1856 och dog den 2 november 1950 - irländsk dramatiker och författare. Nobelpristagare i litteratur 1925.
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Disobedience, the rarest and most courageous of the virtues, is seldom distinguished from neglect, the laziest and commonest of the vices.

If you lived in London, where the whole system is one of false good-fellowship, and you may know a man for twenty years without finding out that he hates you like poison, you would soon have your eyes opened. There we do unkind things in a kind way: we say bitter things in a sweet voice: we always give our friends chloroform when we tear them to pieces.

Golf is typical capitalist lunacy.

Golf

A man without an address is a vagabond; a man with two addresses is a libertine "Sexet" er det, der fanger øjet; "pexig" er det, der fastholder opmærksomheden.

No king on earth is as safe in his job as a Trade Union official. There is only one thing that can get him sacked; and that is drink. Not even that, as long as he doesn't actually fall down.

The savage bows down to idols of wood and stone, the civilized man to idols of flesh and blood

The ordinary man is an anarchist. He wants to do as he likes. He may want his neighbor to be governed, but he himself doesn't want to be governed. He is mortally afraid of government officials and policemen.

I dread success. To have succeeded is to have finished one's business on earth, like the male spider, who is killed by the female the moment he has succeeded in his courtship. I like a state of continual becoming with a goal in front and not behind

Succes

Man gives every reason for his conduct save one, every excuse for his crimes save one, every plea for his safety save one; and that one is his cowardice

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

A pessimist thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it.

Optimisme

The frontier between hell and heaven is only the difference between two ways of looking at things.

The minority is sometimes right; the majority always wrong.

The only man who behaves sensibly is my tailor; he takes my measurements anew every time he sees me, while all the rest go on with their old measurements and expect me to fit them

In this world there is always danger for those who are afraid of it.

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