Marriage is good enough for the lower classes: they have facilities for desertion that are denied to us.Bernard Shaw
Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force.Bernard Shaw
Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.Bernard Shaw
Socialism, reduced to its simplest legal and practical expression, means the complete discarding of the institution of private property by transforming it into public property, and the division of the resultant public income equally and indiscriminately among the entire population.Bernard Shaw
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.Bernard Shaw
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 Uselessness.Bernard Shaw
If a woman can, by careful selection of a father and nourishment of herself, produce a citizen with efficient senses, sound organs and a good digestion, she should clearly be secured a sufficient reward for that natural service to make her willing to undertake and repeat it.Bernard Shaw
If I own a large part of Scotland, I can turn the people off the land practically into the sea or across the sea. I can take women in child-bearing and throw them into the snow and leave them there. That has been done. I can do it for no better reason than I think it is better to shoot deer on the land than allow people to live on it.Bernard Shaw
Until the men of action clear out the talkers we who have social consciences are at the mercy of those who have none.Bernard Shaw
Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody reads.Bernard Shaw
