George Bernard Shaw

Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family. ”

Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children. ”

If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance. ”

If I own a large part of Scotland, I can turn the people off the land practically into the sea or across the sea. I can take women in child-bearing and throw them into the snow and leave them there. That has been done. I can do it for no better reason than I think it is better to shoot deer on the land than allow people to live on it. ”

I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy. ”

A happy family is but an earlier heaven. ”

Why should we take advice on sex from the pope? If he knows anything about it, he shouldn't! ”

Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force. ”

What a man believes may be ascertained, not from his creed, but from the assumptions on which he habitually acts. ”

Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it. ”