George Bernard Shaw on Power
Browse 3 quotations attributed to George Bernard Shaw, catalogued under power, with dates where available.
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Attributed to George Bernard Shaw, entry #39918: "The whole strength of England lies in the fact that the enormous majority of the English people are snobs."
Attributed to George Bernard Shaw, entry #229537: "Why should you call me to account for eating decently? If I battened on the scorched corpses of animals, you might well ask me why I did that. Why should I be filthy and inhuman? …"
3 Quotes by George Bernard Shaw on Power
"The whole strength of England lies in the fact that the enormous majority of the English people are snobs."
"Why should you call me to account for eating decently? If I battened on the scorched corpses of animals, you might well ask me why I did that. Why should I be filthy and inhuman? Why should I be an accomplice in the wholesale horror and degradation of the slaughter-house?"
"Then the first man who had the gumption to see that we might get up on our legs and defy all those old treaties, he would be the most popular man in England. There can be no peace in the world until there is peace between England, France, Germany, Russia, the United States and all the big powers of the West. Now take that home and think about it and don't be frightened any more about the Germans."