Class Quotes by George Bernard Shaw

There are only two classes in good society in England: the equestrian classes and the neurotic classes.

— George Bernard Shaw

The worst cliques are those which consist of one man.

— George Bernard Shaw

The more I see of the moneyed classes, the more I understand the guillotine.

— George Bernard Shaw

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

Independence? That's middle class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.

— George Bernard Shaw

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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