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Society Quotes by George Bernard Shaw
- All progress means war with society.
- There are only two classes in good society in England: the equestrian classes and the neurotic classes.
- It is not disbelief that is dangerous to our society; it is belief.
- In your dread of dictators you established a state of society in which every ward boss is a dictator, every private employer a dictator, every…
- Imprisonment, as it exists today, is a worse crime than any of those committed by its victims.
- Nobody can live in society without conventions. The reason why sensible people are as conventional as they can bear to be is that conventionality saves…
- Though all society is founded on intolerance, all improvement is founded on tolerance.
- We mustn't be stiff and stand-off, you know. We must be thoroughly democratic, and patronize everybody without distinction of class.
- It has taken me nearly twenty years of studied self-restraint, aided by the natural decay of my faculties, to make myself dull enough to be…
- Rich men without convictions are more dangerous in modern society than poor women without chastity.
- It exasperated her to think that the dungeon in which she had languished for so many unhappy years had been unlocked all the time, and…
- No doubt it is easy to demostrate that property will destroy society unless society destroys it.
- Assasination on the scaffold is the worst form of assasination, because there it is invested with the approval of society.
- Civilized society is one huge bourgeoisie: no nobleman dares now shock his greengrocer.
- It is necessary for the welfare of society that genius should be privileged to utter sedition, to blaspheme, to outrage good taste, to corrupt the…
- 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,…
- We must reform society before we can reform ourselves.
- Just as the liar 's punishment is, not in the least that he is not believed , but that he cannot believe any one else;…
- Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty; what is the matter with the rich is…
- Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
- The plain working truth is that it is not only good for people to be shocked occasionally, but absolutely necessary to the progress of society…
- Physically there is nothing to distinguish human society from the farm-yard except that children are more troublesome and costly than chickens and calves and that…
- Both optimists and pessimists contribute to society. The optimist invents the aeroplane, the pessimist the parachute.
- 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.
- Schools must not become the agencies through which propaganda advocated by any section of society is spread. The method of control always a crucial problem…
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- The structure of apartheid is still rooted in the Haitian society. When you have apartheid, you don't see those behind the walls.… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. — Aristotle
- Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms. — Aristotle
- I believe that the whole idea of the consumer society is tottering. We've kept ourselves going by producing more and more goods,… — Paul Auster
- Stories in which the destruction of society occurs are explorations of social fears and issues that filmmakers, novelists, playwrights, painters have been… — J. J. Abrams
- Every fundamentalist movement I've studied in Judaism, Christianity and Islam is convinced at some gut, visceral level that secular liberal society wants… — Karen Armstrong
- Yes, all fundamentalists feel that in a secular society, God has been relegated to the margin, to the periphery and they are… — Karen Armstrong
- In much of society, research means to investigate something you do not know or understand. — Neil Armstrong
- At one of the annual conventions of the American Society for Aesthetics much confusion arose when the Society for Anesthetics met at… — Rudolf Arnheim
- The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom. — Isaac Asimov
- When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that American society… — Isaac Asimov
- Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible. — Francis of Assisi