"We must reform society before we can..." - Quote by George Bernard Shaw

“I assume that to prevent illness in later life, you should never have been born at all.”

“My main reason for adopting literature as a profession was that, as the author is never seen by his clients, he need not dress respectably.”

“Laws, religions, creeds, and systems of ethics, instead of making society better than its best unit, make it worse than its average unit, because they are never up to date.”

“Living in a constant chase after gain compels people to expend their spirit to the point of exhaustion.”

“Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.”

“Our modern society - especially in the West, and especially now - reveres youth.”

“America's high schools are obsolete. By obsolete, I don't just mean that they're broken, flawed, or underfunded, though a case could be made for every one of those points. By obsolete, I mean our high schools-even when they're working as designed-cannot teach all our students what they need to know today.”

“The proper aim is to try and reconstruct society on such a basis that poverty will be impossible.”

“There should be relentless exposure of and attack upon every evil practice, whether in politics, in business, or in social life. I hail as a benefactor every writer or speaker, every man who, on the platform, or in book, magazine or newspaper, with merciless severity makes such attack, provided always that he in his turn remembers that the attack is of use only if it is absolutely truthful.”