Unless the people can choose their leaders and rulers, and can revoke their choice at intervals long enough to test their measuresby… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The most sublime courage I have ever witnessed has been among that class too poor to know they possessed it, and too… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Deep knowledge is not knowledge of the thing itself, but knowledge of a thing like the thing. Then, you gain not one… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
A moderately honest man with a moderately faithful wife, moderate drinkers both, in a moderately healthy house: that is the true middle… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
I'm one of the undeserving poor: that's what I am. Think of what that means to a man. It means that he's… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Independence? That's middle class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Democracy means the organization of society for the benefit and at the expense of everybody indiscriminately and not for the benefit of… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
All classes in proportion to their lack of travel and familiarity with foreign literature are bellicose, prejudiced against foreigners, fond of fighting… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
There are only two classes in good society in England: the equestrian classes and the neurotic classes. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
We mustn't be stiff and stand-off, you know. We must be thoroughly democratic, and patronize everybody without distinction of class. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The more I see of the moneyed classes, the more I understand the guillotine. — 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 Image
Blasphemy and sedition (meaning the truth about Church and State). — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
Men have to do some awfully mean things to keep up their respectability. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
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 Image
As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
But to admire a strong person and to live under that strong person’s thumb are two different things. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
