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The evil reformers should attack is poverty, not sin, drink or ignorance
Drawn from what George Bernard Shaw said
What George Bernard Shaw actually said
- George Bernard Shaw Irish playwright and polemicist (1856 to 1950)
And the evil to be attacked is not sin, suffering, greed, priestcraft, kingcraft, demagogy, monopoly, ignorance, drink, war, pestilence, nor any other of the scapegoats which reformers sacrifice, but simply poverty.
Where this was said
↗Preface to Major Barbara: First Aid to Critics (1906)gutenberg.org
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