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George Bernard Shaw Quotes

Irish - Dramatist | July 26, 1856 - November 2, 1950

Socialism never arises in the earlier phases of capitalism, as, for instance, among the pioneers of civilisation in a country where there is plenty of land available for private appropriation by the last comer.

George Bernard Shaw

Socialism Capitalism Country Land

All genuinely intellectual work is humorous.

George Bernard Shaw

Work Intellectual Humorous Genuinely

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.

George Bernard Shaw

Good Father Service Woman Reward

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.

George Bernard Shaw

Women Live Snow Sea People Better

I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me.

George Bernard Shaw

Me Temptation Bad Never Things

Which painting in the National Gallery would I save if there was a fire? The one nearest the door of course.

George Bernard Shaw

Fire Door Painting Gallery Would

He knows nothing and thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.

George Bernard Shaw

Political Career Nothing Everything

The only fundamental and possible socialism is the socialisation of the selective breeding of man.

George Bernard Shaw

Man Socialism Possible Only Breeding

A veteran journalist has never had time to think twice before he writes.

George Bernard Shaw

Time Think Never Twice He Before

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

George Bernard Shaw

Money World Real Only Aristocracy

No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.

George Bernard Shaw

Man Doing Self-Respect Difficult Who

A fashion is nothing but an induced epidemic.

George Bernard Shaw

Fashion Nothing Epidemic Induced

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