A socialist is somebody who doesn't have anything, and is ready to divide it up equally among everybody. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The only fundamental and possible socialism is the socialisation of the selective breeding of man. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Trade unionism is not socialism. It is the capitalism of the proletariat. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Socialism never arises in the earlier phases of capitalism, as, for instance, among the pioneers of civilisation in a country where there… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
We should have had socialism already, but for the socialists, am quite willing to drop the name if dropping it will help… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“I find that socialism is often misunderstood by its least intelligent supporters and opponents to mean simply unrestrained indulgence of our natural… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“The only fundamental and possible Socialism is the socialization of the selective breeding of Man: in other terms, of human evolution We… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Even under the most perfect Social Democracy we should, without Communism, still be living like hogs, except that each hog would get… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
In socialism, private property is anathema, and equal distribution of income the first consideration. In capitalism, private property is cardinal, and distribution… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Socialism, reduced to its simplest legal and practical expression, means the complete discarding of the institution of private property by transforming it… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“Under Socialism, you would not be allowed to be poor. You would be forcibly fed, clothed, lodged, taught, and employed whether you… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
I also made it quite clear that Socialism means equality of income or nothing, and that under socialism you would not be… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Marx's Kapital is not a treatise on socialism; it is a gerrymand against the bourgeoisie. It was supposed to be written for… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
I love little children too but I don't cut off their heads and stick them in vases. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share
In the arts of life, man invents nothing; but in the arts of death he outdoes Nature herself, and produces by chemistry and machinery… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share
“My religious convictions and scientific views cannot at present be more specifically defined than as those of a believer in creative evolution. I desire… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share
What a man believes may be ascertained, not from his creed, but from the assumptions on which he habitually acts. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share
You are my inspiration and my folly. You are my light across the sea, my million nameless joys, and my day's wage. You are… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share
Men have to do some awfully mean things to keep up their respectability. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share
The schoolmaster is the person who takes the children off the parents' hands for a consideration. That is to say, he establishes a child… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share
As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share
The camera can represent flesh so superbly that, if I dared, I would never photograph a figure without asking that figure to take its… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share
A man who is not a communist at the age of twenty is a fool. Any man who is still communist at the age… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share
But to admire a strong person and to live under that strong person’s thumb are two different things. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share
The person who is ignorant enough to believe that his nourishment depends on meat is in a horrible dilemma. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share
