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" I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community and as long as I live it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can. "
A Greater Democracy Day by Day - Page 123
by Sally Mahe, Kathy Covert - 2004 - 256 pages
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Digest: Review of Reviews Incorporating The Literary Digest, Volume 59

Literature, Modern - 1918 - 992 pages
...seems well established by the work he has done, as a Socialist, as a critic, and as a playwright. " I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community," Mr. Shaw is allowed to say in his biographer's preface to the American edition, "and as long as I live...
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The South Atlantic Quarterly, Volume 11

John Spencer Bassett, Edwin Mims, William Henry Glasson, William Preston Few, William Kenneth Boyd, William Hane Wannamaker - Civilization - 1912 - 440 pages
...he comes to Mr. Shaw's own words, will probably believe in the speaker's sincerity, at least : — I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community, and as long as I live it is my privilege to do for it whatsoever I can. I want to be thoroughly used up when I die,...
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The Review of Reviews, Volume 37

William Thomas Stead - Europe - 1908 - 762 pages
...summing up Mr. Shaw's philosophy in the following quotation from what Mr. Shaw recently said : — I am of the opinion 'that my life belongs to the whole community, and as long as I live it is my privilege to do for it whatsoever I can. I want to be thoroughly used up when I die,...
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Prophets, Priests and Kings

Alfred George Gardiner - Biography - 1908 - 430 pages
...perhaps, come nearest to revealing it in that fine saying of his with which one may well close : " I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community, and as long as I live it is my privilege to do for it whatsoever I can. I want to be thoroughly used up when I die,...
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Interpreters of Life and the Modern Spirit

Archibald Henderson - 1911 - 358 pages
...contrast of his own optimistic theories of life with what he regards as Shakspere's pessimistic view: "I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community, and as long as I live it is my privilege to do for it whatsoever I can. "I want to be thoroughly used up when I die,...
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George Bernard Shaw: His Life and Works, a Critical Biography (authorized)

Archibald Henderson - Authors, Irish - 1911 - 684 pages
...life belongs to the wbok community, and as long as I live it is my privilege to do for it whatsoever I can. " I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the hardti I work, the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sakt. Life is no ' brief candle ' for...
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George Bernard Shaw His Life and Works

Archibald Henderson - 1911 - 634 pages
...organizations in behalf of the general welfare, without remuneration or the hope of remuneration. " I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community," Bernard Shaw has finely declared, " and as long as I live it is my privilege to do for it whatsoever...
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Interpreters of Life and the Modern Spirit

Archibald Henderson - Literature, Modern - 1911 - 348 pages
...optimistic theories of life with what hejregardsTas TSTiaks'pere's pessimisttrvi«WT"*~*"I am of thTbpmTon that my life belongs to the whole community, and as long as I live it is my J1 «*w**-..~1.i. .... ° . avr-^.,w,^«.'J*~1«™*.-^«.r ...... i«^A«.«*.. 4t-W^...
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The South Atlantic Quarterly, Volume 11

John Spencer Bassett, Edwin Mims, William Henry Glasson, William Preston Few, William Kenneth Boyd, William Hane Wannamaker - Civilization - 1912 - 440 pages
...he comes to Mr. Shaw's own words, will probably believe in the speaker's sincerity, at least : — I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community, and as long as I live it is my privilege to do for it whatsoever I can. I want to be thoroughly used up when I die,...
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The Ethical and Religious Value of the Drama

Ramsden Balmforth - Drama - 1926 - 258 pages
...things. "I am of opinion," says Mr. Shaw in a passage which sums up his philosophy of life—" I am of opinion that my life belongs to the whole community, and as long as I live it is my privilege to do for it whatsoever I can. I want to be thoroughly used up when I die,...
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