"Social questions are too sectional, too topical,..." - Quote by George Bernard Shaw
Social questions are too sectional, too topical, too temporal to move a man to the mighty effort which is needed to produce greatpoetry. Prison reform may nerve Charles Reade to produce an effective and businesslike prose melodrama; but it could never produce Hamlet, Faust, or Peer Gynt.
More by George Bernard Shaw
“Our way of getting an army able to fight the German army is to declare war on Germany just as if we had such an army, and then trust to the appalling resultant peril and disaster to drive us into wholesale enlistment.”
“I am a brigand: I live by robbing the rich.' 'I am a gentleman: I live by robbing the poor.”
“The moment we face it frankly we are driven to the conclusion that the community has a right to put a price on the right to live in it”
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“Painting isn't a question of sensibility; it's a matter of seizing the power, taking over from nature, not expecting her to supply you with information and good advice.”
“There ought to be an absolute dictatorship... a dictatorship of painters... a dictatorship of one painter... to suppress all those who have betrayed us.”
“Science and art belong to the whole world, and before them vanish the barriers of nationality.”