George Bernard Shaw Quotes

Contrary to popular belief. It's much wiser to take money from the poor than the rich.

I'm still a communist in the sense that I don't believe the world will survive with the rich getting richer and the poor getting poorer - I think that the pressures will get so tremendous that the social contract will just come apart.

God help the rich, the poor can look after themselves

Feed the poor and get rich or feed the rich and get poor.

Globalization is a form of totalitarianism... It is the rich who rule, and the poor live as they can.

The patience and forbearance of the poor are among the strongest bulwarks of the rich.

The rich have markets, the poor have bureaucrats.

Hear me people: We have now to deal with another race - small and feeble when our fathers first met them, but now great and overbearing. Strangely enough they have a mind to till the soil and the love of possession is a disease with them. These people have made many rules that the rich may break but the poor may not. They take their tithes from the poor and weak to support the rich and those who rule.

Has it ever occurred to you, that the rich are at the mercy of the poor, not the poor at that of the rich? Who permits us to be rich if not the poor?

Abolish plutocracy if you would abolish poverty.

The poor have the same basic pleasures as the rich, and the rich will always resent it.

The rich don't exploit the poor. They just out-compete them.

If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.

If we're not going to tax the rich anymore, we're going to create class warfare.

It's the rich you can terrorize. The poor have nothing to lose.

It seems that the fiction writer has a revolting attachment to the poor, for even when he writes about the rich, he is more concerned with what they lack than with what they have.

If class warfare is being waged in America, my class is clearly winning.

The rich are few everywhere, the poor many.

The needs of the poor take priority over the desires of the rich

There are no great lords who possess everything and a herd of people who have nothing

The rich have all the speech they want; the poor have lockjaw.

If the upper classes, through their political representatives, pass legislation that diminishes the income of the middle class and reduces services to the poor and further enrich the affluent, this is not class warfare. But if the middle class and the poor, and their representatives, complain that this is unfair, that is class warfare. So say some of our politicians who oppose class warfare.

It would be well for those interested to reflect whether there now exists, or ever has existed, a wealthy and civilized community in which one portion did not live on the labor of another.... Remember that labor is the only source of wealth, and how small a portion of it, in all old and civilized countries, even the best governed, is left to those by whose labor wealth is created.

Civil government, so far as it is instituted for the security of property, is in reality instituted for the defense of the rich against the poor, or of those who have some property against those who have none at all.

On the one hand, the rich look askance at our continuing poverty - on the other, they warn us against their own methods.