The Intelligent Woman's Guide to Socialism, Capitalism, Sovietism and Fascism Quotes

“As it is not a settled question, you must clear your mind of the fancy with
which we all begin as children, that the institutions under which we live,
including our legal ways of distributing income and allowing people to own things, are natural, like the weather. They are not. Because they exist everywhere in our little world, we take it for granted that they have always existed and must always exist, and that they are self-acting. That is a dangerous mistake. They are in fact transient makeshifts; and many of them would not be obeyed, even by well-meaning people, if there were not a policeman within call and a prison within reach. They are being changed continually by Parliament, because we are never satisfied with them.... At the elections some candidates get votes by promising to make new laws or to get rid of old ones, and others by promising to keep things just as they are. This is impossible. Things will not stay as they are.

Changes that nobody ever believed possible take place in a few generations. Children nowadays think that spending nine years in school, oldage and widows’ pensions, votes for women, and short-skirted ladies in Parliament or pleading in barristers’ wigs in the courts are part of the order of Nature, and always were and ever shall be; but their great-grandmothers would have set down anyone who told them that such things were coming as mad, and anyone who wanted them to come as wicked.”
― George Bernard Shaw, The Intelligent Woman's Guide to Socialism, Capitalism, Sovietism and Fascism

“لقد نجحت الجمعية الفابية لأنها كانت تخاطب طبقتها هي و لم تدع انها تخاطب الطبقة العاملة فحسب. كانت تهدف الي انجاز التنظيمات الفكرية اللازمة للتخطيط الاشتراك لجميع الطبقات . وفي نفس الوقت لم ترفض الاوضاع الراهنة ، و التنظيمات السياسية القائمة و لم تحاول ان تتخطاها . بل صممت على ان تتغلغل في جميع هذه النظيمات و تبث فيها المفهوم الاشتراكي للمجتمع الانساني”
― جورج برنارد شو, The Intelligent Woman's Guide to Socialism, Capitalism, Sovietism and Fascism

“It is the people who hate poverty, not those who sympathize with it, who will put an end to it.”
― George Bernard Shaw, The Intelligent Woman's Guide to Socialism, Capitalism, Sovietism and Fascism

“الخيل و الآدميون سواء في أنهم نادرا ما يعترضون على أن يُقادوا و أن يُوجهوا: بل هم في العادة لا يحسون بغير السعادة لإعفائهم من مهمة التفكير و تدبير أمورهم. أما الأشخاص الذين لا يقبلون التحكم و السيطرة، فهم الشواذ وليسوا هم القاعدة. وعندما يساء استخدام السلطة، ويصبح الخضوع للسلطة اذلالاَ، فسيرفض الناس السلطة و يأبون الخضوع لها، ويصبح كل شيء محتمل الوقوع ابتداء من العصيان البسيط الى الثورة الجارفة... ”
― George Bernard Shaw, The Intelligent Woman's Guide to Socialism, Capitalism, Sovietism and Fascism