Society Quotes by George Bernard Shaw

All progress means war with society.

— George Bernard Shaw

We must reform society before we can reform ourselves.

— George Bernard Shaw

Imprisonment, as it exists today, is a worse crime than any of those committed by its victims.

— 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

Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty; what is the matter with…

— George Bernard Shaw

It has taken me nearly twenty years of studied self-restraint, aided by the natural decay of my faculties, to make myself dull…

— 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

When the world goes mad, one must accept madness as sanity; since sanity is, in the last analysis, nothing but the madness…

— George Bernard Shaw

If you're not producing as much as you consume, or perhaps a little more, then clearly we cannot use the big organization…

— George Bernard Shaw

You must all know half a dozen people at least who are no use in this world, who are more trouble than…

— George Bernard Shaw

Nobody can live in society without conventions. The reason why sensible people are as conventional as they can bear to be is…

— George Bernard Shaw

“As it is not a settled question, you must clear your mind of the fancy with which we all begin as children,…

— George Bernard Shaw