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Few Quotes by George Bernard Shaw
- Our necessities are few, but our wants are endless.
- Capitalism drives the employers to do their worst to the employed, and the employed to do the least for them. And it boasts all the…
- In gambling the many must lose in order that the few may win.
- The American Constitution, one of the few modern political documents drawn up by men who were forced by the sternest circumstances to think out what…
- We want a few mad people now. See where the sane ones have landed us!
- There are no perfectly honorable men; but every true man has one main point of honor and a few minor ones.
- Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a…
- Statistics show that of those who contract the habit of eating, very few survive.
- Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.
- Very few people can afford to be poor.
- Few of us have vitality enough to make any of our instincts imperious.
- Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.
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