A great deal of unnecessary worry is indulged in by theatregoers trying to understand what Bernard Shaw means. They are not satisf...ied to listen to a pleasantly written scene in which three or four clever people say clever things, but they need to purse their lips and scowl a little and debate as to whether Shaw meant the lines to be an attack on monogamy as an institution or a plea for manual training in the public school system.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
All industries are brought under the control of such people [film producers] by Capitalism. If the capitalists let themselves be s...educed from their pursuit of profits to the enchantments of art, they would be bankrupt before they knew where they were. You cannot combine the pursuit of money with the pursuit of art.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The war shook down the Tsardom, an unspeakable abomination, and made an end of the new German Empire and the old Apostolic Austria...n one. It ... gave votes and seats in Parliament to women.... But if society can be reformed only by the accidental results of horrible catastrophes ... what hope is there for mankind in them? The war was a horror and everybody is the worse for it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A pornographic novelist is one who exploits the sexual instinct as a prostitute does. A legitimate sex novel elucidates it or brin...gs out its poetry, tragedy, or comedy.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It's usually pointed out that women are not fit for political power, and ought not to be trusted with a vote because they are poli...tically ignorant, socially prejudiced, narrow-minded, and selfish. True enough, but precisely the same is true of men!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In Ireland they try to make a cat cleanly by rubbing its nose in its own filth. Mr. Joyce has tried the same treatment on the huma...n subject. I hope it may prove successful.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The censorship method ... is that of handing the job over to some frail and erring mortal man, and making him omnipotent on the as...sumption that his official status will make him infallible and omniscient.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »