Quote of the Day

“Two percent of the people think; three percent of the people think they think; and ninety-five percent of the people would rather die than think.

• Bernard Shaw

George Bernard Shaw, known at his insistence as Bernard Shaw, 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. Shaw became the leading dramatist of his generation, and in 1925 was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.