George Bernard Shaw Quotes

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.

The forces in a capitalist society, if left unchecked, tend to make the rich richer and the poor poorer.

An imbalance between the rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics.

There are only two families in the whole world, my old grandmother used to say, The Haves and the Have-Nots.

God help the rich, the poor can look after themselves

The competition of the poor takes away from the reward of the rich.

The dirty truth is that the rich are the great cause of poverty.

Income inequality is troubling because, among other things, it means that many people in our society don't have the opportunities to advance themselves.

I believe and I say it is true Democratic feeling, that all the measures of the Government are directed to the purpose of making the rich richer and the poor poorer.

The rich don’t want the poor to get ahead of them.

The central issue of our time remains the fact that the rich are getting richer and the poor, poorer.

Revolutions break out when opposite parties, the rich and the poor, are equally balanced, and there is little or nothing between them.

The poor generally follow behavior patterns established by the rich.

Hunger, the inseparable companion of the poor, is the offspring of the unequal distribution of the wealth and the injustices in this world. The rich do not know hunger.

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

Two nations between whom there is no intercourse and no sympathy; who are as ignorant of each other's habits, thoughts and feelings, as if they were dwellers in different zones or inhabitants of different planets ... the rich and the poor.

The present assault upon capital is but the beginning. It will be but a stepping stone to others, larger and more sweeping, till our political contests will become a war of the poor against the rich.

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

No society is healthy when the gap between the rich and the poor is growing.

No harm is done by the possession of Luxury by some people if only at the same time EVERYBODY HAS ENOUGH. The wrong incurred by the rich toward the poor lies solely in the fact that while they revel, the poor starve

In Delhi there was no war other than the usual one -- the war of the rich against the poor.

The poor are little folks living on little lands who want what we already have.

It is easy to say that there are the rich and the poor, and so something should be done. But in history, there are always the rich and the poor. If the poor were not as poor, we would still call them the poor. I mean, whoever has less can be called the poor. You will always have the 10% that have less and the 10% that have the most.

The conspicuously wealthy turn up urging the character building values of the privation of the poor.

Luxury may possibly contribute to give bread to the poor; but if there were no luxury, there would be no poor.