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George Bernard Shaw Quotes

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

I'm an atheist and I thank God for it.

George Bernard Shaw

God Thank God Atheist Thank

A broken heart is a very pleasant complaint for a man in London if he has a comfortable income.

George Bernard Shaw

Heart Man Broken Broken Heart London

Beware of the man who does not return your blow: he neither forgives you nor allows you to forgive yourself.

George Bernard Shaw

Forgiveness Man Yourself You Return

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.

George Bernard Shaw

Time Society Rich Questions Poverty

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

George Bernard Shaw

Family Funny Dance You May Well

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.

George Bernard Shaw

Socialism Legal Division Property

Every person who has mastered a profession is a skeptic concerning it.

George Bernard Shaw

Person Who Profession Every Skeptic

Statistics show that of those who contract the habit of eating, very few survive.

George Bernard Shaw

Food Habit Eating Survive Statistics

The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.

George Bernard Shaw

Power Observation Cynicism Got Who

Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness.

George Bernard Shaw

Happiness Great Greatness Done May

In socialism, private property is anathema, and equal distribution of income the first consideration. In capitalism, private property is cardinal, and distribution left to ensue from the play of free contract and selfish interest on that basis, no matter what anomalies it may present.

George Bernard Shaw

Socialism Free Capitalism Selfish

Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.

George Bernard Shaw

Power Men Fools Position Corrupt

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