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"Using money in one's attempt to put an end to poverty is like using a border in one's attempt to put an end to xenophobia."
"Poverty is a dish best served with Potato Soup."
"I avoid going through places where there's too much poverty."
"Whether it is big or small, the size of a poor man's yard incessantly reminds him that he is poor."
"Poverty, for me, is synonymous with degradation."
"It is in the best interest of the rich to preserve poverty."
Explore more quotes by George Bernard Shaw
"But whether the risks to which liberty exposes us are moral or physical our right to liberty involves the right to run them. A man who is not free to risk his neck as an aviator or his soul as a heretic is not free at all; and the right to liberty begins, not at the age of 21 years but 21 seconds."
"People become attached to their burdens sometimes more than the burdens are attached to them."
"The man with toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound.The poverty stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man."
"Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world."
"The weak may not be admired and hero-worshipped; but they are by no means disliked or shunned; and they never seem to have the least difficulty in marrying people who are too good for them. They may fail in emergencies; but life is not one long emergency: it is mostly a string of situations for which no exceptional strength is needed, and with which even rather weak people can cope if they have a stronger partner to help them out."
"A pessimist is a man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it."
"My method is to take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say, and then to say it with the utmost levity."
"Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds, cannot change anything."
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