"HIGGINS. Have you no morals, man? DOOLITTLE..." - Quote by George Bernard Shaw
HIGGINS. Have you no morals, man? DOOLITTLE [unabashed] Cant afford them, Governor. Neither could you if you was as poor as me.
More by George Bernard Shaw
“If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.”
“When you prevent me from doing anything I want to do, that is persecution; when I prevent you from doing anything you want to do, that is law, order, and morals.”
“In order to fully realize how bad a popular play can be, it is necessary to see it twice.”
More on Morality
“Laws without morals are in vain.”
“The advocates of a criminal are seldom artists enough to turn the beautiful terribleness of the deed to the advantage of the doer.”
“Think nothing profitable to you which compels you to break a promise, to lose your self respect, to hate any person, to curse, to act the hypocrite.”
More on Poverty
“The poor have very few hours in which to enjoy themselves; they must take their pleasure raw; they haven't the time to cook it.”
“Wealth and poverty; one is the parent of luxury and indolence, and the other of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent.”
“It is not a charity but a right, not bounty but justice, that I am pleading for. The present state of civilization is as odious as it is unjust. It is absolutely the opposite of what it should be, and it is necessary that a revolution should be made in it. The contrast of affluence and wretchedness continually meeting and offending the eye, is like dead and living bodies chained together”