You are going to let the fear of poverty govern your life and your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live.

—George Bernard Shaw

About George Bernard Shaw

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George Bernard Shaw (26 July 1856 – 2 November 1950) was an Irish playwright, critic, polemicist and political activist. His influence on Western theatre, culture and politics extended from the 1880s to his death and beyond. He wrote more than sixty plays, including major works such as Man and Superman...

More quotations from George Bernard Shaw

It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.

—George Bernard Shaw

Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.

—George Bernard Shaw

Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.

—George Bernard Shaw

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My country, right or wrong," is a thing that no patriot would think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying, "My mother, drunk or sober.

—George Bernard Shaw

If you have to keep something secret it's because you shouldn't be doing it in the first place!

—George Bernard Shaw

More quotations tagged with “poverty”

Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is in an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob, and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.

—Frederick Douglass

Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.

Poverty is the schoolmaster of character.

He who desires is always poor.

A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.

—George Bernard Shaw

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