"I find that socialism is often misunderstood..." - Quote by George Bernard Shaw
I find that socialism is often misunderstood by its least intelligent supporters and opponents to mean simply unrestrained indulgence of our natural propensity to heave bricks at respectable persons.
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“We must not stay as we are, doing always what was done last time; or we shall stick in the mud.”
“All this struggling and striving to make the world better is a great mistake. Not that it's wrong to try to improve the world if you know how but simply because struggling and striving are the worst possible ways to go about doing anything!”
“Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men's imperfections, and conceal your own.”
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“I am opposed to socialism because it dreams ingenuously of good, truth, beauty, and equal rights.”
“I am a socialist not because I think it is a perfect system, but half a loaf is better than no bread. The other system has been tried and found wanting”
“Trade unionism is not socialism. It is the capitalism of the proletariat.”
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“The English are probably more capable than most peoples of making revolutionary change without bloodshed. In England, if anywhere,it would be possible to abolish poverty without destroying liberty.”
“Mr. Chamberlain loves the working man, he loves to see him work.”
“The man was a deceiver. He was deceitful and I will never bite my tongue in saying that. I don't think he was anything but a politician, and he used Negroes to get elected and to get votes.”