I have examined Man's wonderful inventions. And I tell you that in the arts of life man invents nothing; but in the arts of death he outdoes Nature h… - George Bernard Shaw

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I have examined Man's wonderful inventions. And I tell you that in the arts of life man invents nothing; but in the arts of death he outdoes Nature herself, and produces by chemistry and machinery all the slaughter of plague, pestilence and famine.

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About George Bernard Shaw

George Bernard Shaw (26 July 1856 – 2 November 1950), known at his insistence simply as Bernard Shaw, was an Irish playwright, critic, polemicist and political activist with a range incorporating both contemporary satire and historical allegory. He wrote more than sixty plays, including such works as Man and Superman (1902), Pygmalion (1913) and Saint Joan (1923). Shaw was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1925.

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Alternative Names: Bernard Shaw G.B. Shaw G. Bernard Shaw

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But whether the risks to which liberty exposes us are moral or physical our right to liberty involves the right to run them. A man who is not free to risk his neck as an aviator or his soul as a heretic is not free at all; and the right to liberty begins, not at the age of 21 years but 21 seconds.

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الخيل و الآدميون سواء في أنهم نادرا ما يعترضون على أن يُقادوا و أن يُوجهوا: بل هم في العادة لا يحسون بغير السعادة لإعفائهم من مهمة التفكير و تدبير أمورهم. أما الأشخاص الذين لا يقبلون التحكم و السيطرة، فهم الشواذ وليسوا هم القاعدة. وعندما يساء استخدام السلطة، ويصبح الخضوع للسلطة اذلالاَ، فسيرفض الناس السلطة و يأبون الخضوع لها، ويصبح كل شيء محتمل الوقوع ابتداء من العصيان البسيط الى الثورة الجارفة...

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