“Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.”

— George Bernard Shaw · Wisdom quote

Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it. — George Bernard Shaw quote card
Playwright · 1856 – 1950

Irish playwright and critic; author of Pygmalion; Nobel Prize in Literature 1925.

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