George Bernard Shaw

Money is the most important thing in the world. It represents health, strength, honor, generosity, and beauty as conspicuously as the want of it represents illness, weakness, disgrace, meanness, and ugliness.

Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous.

Parentage is a very important profession, but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interest of the children.

Give a man health and a course to steer, and he’ll never stop to trouble about whether he’s happy or not.

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

A fool’s brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.

I am not worried about the deficit. It is big enough to take care of itself.

More socialism means more democracy, openness and collectivism in everyday life.

None of us and none of the Arabs trust Israel.

The press must grow day in and day out – it is our Party’s sharpest and most powerful weapon.

I feel a lot of people listen to what I have to say.

In the US, there is basically one party – the business party. It has two factions, called Democrats and Republicans, which are somewhat different but carry out variations on the same policies. By and large, I am opposed to these policies. As is most of the population.

Distress is so severe that among white middle-aged Americans, mortality is actually increasing, something unheard of in functioning societies apart from war or pestilence. There are similar phenomena in Europe under the ‘business first’ (‘neoliberal’/’austerity’) assault.

The big transnationals want to reduce freedom by undermining the democratic functioning of the states in which they’re based, while at the same time ensuring the government will be powerful enough to protect and support them.

If you want my personal attitude, I would tell you that I don’t care about a person’s sexual orientation.

Controversy may rage as long as it adheres to the presuppositions that define the consensus of elites, and it should furthermore be encouraged within these bounds…while reinforcing the belief that freedom reigns.

Democracy: The substitution of election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.

We won with poorly educated. I love the poorly educated.

Advertisers will want, more generally, to avoid programs with serious complexities and disturbing controversies that interfere with the “buying mood”…and thus fit in with the spirit of the primary purpose of program purchases-the dissemination of a selling message.

The more intermediaries there are, the more problems there are.

The heart of the security agenda is protecting lives – and we now know that the number of people who will die of AIDS in the first decade of the 21st Century will rival the number that died in all the wars in all the decades of the 20th century.