Quotes by Shaw, George Bernard

We want a few mad people now. See where the sane ones have landed us! >>

All problems are finally scientific problems. >>

We sing in a church, why can we not dance there? >>

Quotations about Equality

A friend to everybody and to nobody is the same thing. >>

The doctrine of equality! There exists no more poisonous poison: for i >>

In America everybody is of opinion that he has no social superiors, si >>

Between persons of equal income there is no social distinction except the distinction of merit. Money is nothing: character, conduct, and capacity are everything. There would be great people and ordinary people and little people, but the great would always be those who had done great things, and never the idiots whose mothers had spoiled them and whose fathers had left them a hundred thousand a year; and the little would be persons of small minds and mean characters, and not poor persons who had never had a chance. That is why idiots are always in favor of inequality of income (their only chance of eminence), and the really great in favor of equality.

Shaw, George Bernard