George Bernard Shaw

His glorious evolutionary theory in Back to Methuselah of sleep as an infantile habit, still remains a dream. --Eimar O'Duffy, A philosopher's ideas about Sleep, an interview with Bernard Shaw (1929) (via The Truth About Cars)

The essential thing is that Bernard Shaw passionately hates all that is complacent, malevolent, callous, inequitable, oppressive, unsocial, stupid, irreligious, enervating, narrow, misinformed, unimaginative, lazy, envious, unclean, disloyal, mercenary, and extravagant. Hating all this with the positive, energetic, and proselytizing hatred of an incorrigible moralist, he has naturally seized on the biggest and most adequate stick in reach with which to beat the nineteenth-century sinner. This stick happened to be the socialist stick. ... Bernard Shaw's socialism stick is simply his weapon -- the most convenient weapon to hand -- with which to convict a society founded upon capitalism of the greatest possible amount of sin with the least possible opportunity of an overwhelming retort from the sinner. --John Palmer, George Bernard Shaw: Harlequin or Patriot? The Century, November 1914-April 1915


Other works online:

Do We Agree? A Debate between G. K. Chesterton and Bernard Shaw, transcribed by Cecil Palmer, 1928 (via Celia Wren at dotCommonweal)