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The greatest of evils and the worst of crimes is poverty.

— George Bernard Shaw

More from George Bernard Shaw

  1. Kings are not born: they are made by universal hallucination.
  2. The faults of the burglar are the qualities of the financier: the manners and habits of a duke would cost a city clerk his situation.
  3. Every man over forty is a scoundrel.
  4. ...society, with all its prisons and bayonets and whips and ostracisms and starvations, is powerless in the face of the Anarchist who is pr…
  5. Whilst we have prisons it matters little which of us occupy the cells.
  6. I can't talk religion to a man with bodily hunger in his eyes.
  7. Beware of the man whose god is in the skies.
  8. You cannot have power for good without having power for evil too. Even mother's milk nourishes murderers as well as heroes.

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  • poverty
  • inequality
  • crime

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