Khin Myo Chit - World Famous Words and Phrases

The great writer George Bernard Shaw has been giving readers around the world a profound and thought-provoking experience for over 50 years. His witty and controversial plays have been performed in half the world. He remained a staunch critic of past, present and future events well into his eighties. The audio recording of this talk is Shaw's own unchanging, authentic voice, and will leave you with something to think about and ponder after reading his words.

(A speech broadcast on June 17, 1935 by the great writer George Bernard Shaw. He was a great scholar who was known throughout the world as a great orator. His words and eloquence were unique.)

Ladies and gentlemen. I have no time for this evening's talk about the meaningless freedom. To put it bluntly, what kind of person is a truly free person? In fact, a person who can do whatever he wants, at any time, anywhere, and do nothing if he wants to, is a truly free person. But such a person does not exist anywhere. He cannot exist. Whether you like it or not, we spend a third of our lives sleeping. We have to take a shower, get dressed and undressed. We have to eat and drink for an hour or two. It also takes time to get from one place to another.

Whether we are kings with thousands of servants or poor men who have no servants but only their wives, we spend half of our time each day in the service of the inexorable natural forces. In the case of middle-aged wives, we have the additional burden of bearing children to sustain the world's population. We cannot avoid these natural duties. But there are other duties that come with them. These duties can be avoided. We must eat to live, so we must find food. We must sleep to sleep. We must have a bed to sleep on. We must walk on the streets, so we must wear clothes to cover our naked bodies.

Food, shelter, and clothing can be made by human hands. It is also possible to steal what others have already made. For example, if you want honey, you can steal what bees have worked hard to collect. If you are too lazy to walk from one place to another, you can make a horse your slave. In the same way that bees and horses oppress each other, you can also oppress all other people, men, women, and children. In order to oppress them, you can use your power over them, deceive them, or use your intelligence. In the end, you can still deny that they are slaves by calling them gods and goddesses, or by preaching that they are doing good deeds.

So be careful. If a person or a group of people comes to power, they will certainly put all the responsibilities that have been delegated to others, including the natural responsibilities mentioned above, on your heads and shoulders. If that happens, you will end up working from eight to fourteen hours a day out of the 24 hours.

In fact, if you are just providing for your family, you don't need to work that much. You can live on half of this. If it is a truly honest government, it has the responsibility to prevent you from being forced to do this by just one person or one class of people. But I am very sorry to say that the purpose of governments is usually to protect and to protect, and it is one-sided.

Governments have made you slaves and called you free. But they have one thing in common. They have made slavery a little more manageable and limited by the greed of your masters. The Kapali, who have made you their own slaves, have not been able to make you pay for it, so they have abolished the system of personal slavery and given you freedom to do whatever you want and find whatever masters you want. They have called it the great victory of independence. What is special about you? Not that you can always go the other way.

You protested again, and they said they would let you rule your own country. And they kept that promise, and they let you vote. They made you hold elections every five years. And the elections were just about choosing between two of their wealthy cronies. You were free to vote for the one you didn't like and the one you liked.