Government Robs Peter to Pay Paul, Has Paul's Support

"A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul" -- George Bernard Shaw

Vote as a Capitalist Between Government and Gold

"You have to choose between trusting to the natural stability of gold and the natural stability of the honesty and intelligence of the members of the Government. And, with due respect for these gentlemen, I advise you, as long as the capitalist system lasts, to vote for gold." -- George Bernard Shaw

Idiots are Always in Favor of Inequality of Income: Shaw

“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." -- George Bernard Shaw

Poverty is Worst of Evils & Strikes Dead Our Souls

"Poverty blights whole cities; spreads horrible pestilences; strikes dead the very souls of all who come within sight, sound, or smell of it" -- George Bernard Shaw

Security Cannot Exist Where Poverty Hangs Over Heads

"Security, the chief pretense of civilization, cannot exist where the worst of dangers, the danger of poverty, hangs over everyone's head" -- George Bernard Shaw

Poverty is the Greatest Evil & the Worst Crime

"The greatest of evils and the worst of crimes is poverty" -- George Bernard Shaw

Having No Office to Go To is an Impossible Trial

"A man who has no office to go to -- I don't care who he is -- is a trial of which you can have no conception." -- George Bernard Shaw

Government Gets Support From Those Who Benefit

"The government who robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul" -- George Bernard Shaw

Fact is, Money Is Most Important Thing In The World

"Money is indeed the most important thing in the world; and all sound and successful personal and national morality should have this fact for its basis." -- George Bernard Shaw

George Bernard Shaw: The Rich Are Useless

"What is the matter with the poor is poverty; what is the matter with the rich is uselessness." -- George Bernard Shaw

George Bernard Shaw: Fear of Poverty Destroys Living

"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

George Bernard Shaw: Stupid Enough To Want Money

"To be clever enough to get a great deal of money, one must be stupid enough to want it." -- George Bernard Shaw

How Many Economists Does it Take to Reach a Conclusion?

"If all the economists were laid end to end, they'd never reach a conclusion." -- George Bernard Shaw