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Quotation from Saint Joan by George Bernard Shaw

“It is the protest of the individual soul against the interference of priest or peer between the private man and his God.”

George Bernard Shaw (spoken by Warwick)

Saint Joan, Scene IV (Project Gutenberg #76323 (Brentano's, 1926))

Portrait of George Bernard Shaw

Warwick names the danger he sees in Joan, and goes on to call it Protestantism.

Citation: "It is the protest of the individual soul against the interference of priest or peer between the private man and his God." — George Bernard Shaw, Saint Joan, Scene IV (Project Gutenberg #76323 (Brentano's, 1926)). (id shaw-saint-joan-q2)

Portrait: George Bernard Shaw, Bain News Service, publisher, Public domain.

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