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.

Quote by George Bernard Shaw

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Socialism is the same as Communism, only better English.

Socialism is the same as Communism, only better English.

If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it...

If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it...

Human beings are the only animals of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid.

Human beings are the only animals of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid.

Those who do not know how to live must make a merit of dying

Those who do not know how to live must make a merit of dying

Must then Christ perish in torment in every age to save those that have no...

Must then Christ perish in torment in every age to save those that have no...

We are the only real aristocracy in the world: the aristocracy of money.

We are the only real aristocracy in the world: the aristocracy of money.

The first condition of progress is the removal of censorship.

The first condition of progress is the removal of censorship.

She had lost the art of conversation but not, unfortunately, the power of speech.

She had lost the art of conversation but not, unfortunately, the power of speech.

There are no secrets better kept than the secrets everybody guesses.

There are no secrets better kept than the secrets everybody guesses.

Most people do not pray; they only beg.

Most people do not pray; they only beg.

Government is not every body's job. It is a highly skilled vocation.

Government is not every body's job. It is a highly skilled vocation.

Orchestras only need to be sworn at, and a German is consequently at an advantage...

Orchestras only need to be sworn at, and a German is consequently at an advantage...

The minority is sometimes right; the majority always wrong.

The minority is sometimes right; the majority always wrong.

What the world calls originality is only an unaccustomed method of tickling it

What the world calls originality is only an unaccustomed method of tickling it

We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility...

We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility...

The possibilities are numerous once we decide to act and not react.

The possibilities are numerous once we decide to act and not react.

The best reformers the world has ever seen are those who commence on themselves

The best reformers the world has ever seen are those who commence on themselves

People get nothing out of books but what they bring to them.

People get nothing out of books but what they bring to them.

People buy books to own knowledge and have others see them as people of knowledge.

People buy books to own knowledge and have others see them as people of knowledge.

I am mortified to be told that, in the United States of America, the sale...

I am mortified to be told that, in the United States of America, the sale...