George Bernard Shaw Quotes
Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.
This is a variant on Lord Acton’s famous quotation {292904}
Sometimes misattributed to Abraham Lincoln, this quote has many forms but Ingersoll appears to have have written the earliest (which was written about Lincoln). Ingersoll’s original quote: “Most people can bear adversity. But if you wish to know what a man really is, give him power. This is the supreme test.”
This is a logically equivalent phrasing of Lord Acton’s famous quote: {292904}.
1st Earl Baldwin of Bewdley. His famous line was actually first stated by Rudyard Kipling.
George Bernard Shaw, known at his insistence simply 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. He wrote more than sixty plays, including major works such as Man and Superman (1902), Pygmalion (1912) and Saint Joan (1923). With a range incorporating both contemporary satire and historical allegory, Shaw became the leading dramatist of his generation, and in 1925 was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.
