government 7
- Everyone becomes an anarchist about laws that go against their conscience
- Churches are tolerated only on condition that they preach submission to the capitalist state
George Bernard Shaw
Irish playwright and polemicist (1856 to 1950); Nobel Prize in Literature laureate in 1925; author of Maxims for Revolutionists.
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What George Bernard Shaw says most about
religion 5
- The Salvation Army's growing business organization will make its enthusiasts give way to a bureaucracy
- A nobler Christianity affirms equality and forbids vengeance, including what is called punishment
capitalism 2
- Churches are tolerated only on condition that they preach submission to the capitalist state
- Treating some money as tainted and other money as clean is a superstition
happiness 2
- Money is the most important thing in the world, standing for health, strength and honor
- Society should give everyone enough to live well on, then see that they earn it