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Class Quotes by George Bernard Shaw
- The worst cliques are those which consist of one man.
- There are only two classes in good society in England: the equestrian classes and the neurotic classes.
- All classes in proportion to their lack of travel and familiarity with foreign literature are bellicose, prejudiced against foreigners, fond of fighting as a cruel…
- A moderately honest man with a moderately faithful wife, moderate drinkers both, in a moderately healthy house: that is the true middle class unit.
- We mustn't be stiff and stand-off, you know. We must be thoroughly democratic, and patronize everybody without distinction of class.
- Marx's Kapital is not a treatise on socialism; it is a gerrymand against the bourgeoisie. It was supposed to be written for the working class,…
- Independence? That's middle class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.
- I have to live for others and not for myself: that's middle-class morality.
- Marriage is good enough for the lower classes: they have facilities for desertion that are denied to us.
- The more I see of the moneyed classes, the more I understand the guillotine.
- Democracy means the organization of society for the benefit and at the expense of everybody indiscriminately and not for the benefit of a privileged class.
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