George Bernard Shaw Principles Quotations

Capitalism drives the employers to do their worst to the employed, and the employed to do the least for them. And it boasts all the time of the incentive it provides to both to do their best! . . . The reason the Capitalist system has worked so far without jamming for more than a few months at a time, and then only in places, is that it has not yet succeeded in making a conquest of human nature so complete that everybody acts on strictly business principles.

Capitalism justified itself and was adopted as an economic principle on the express ground that it provides selfish motives for doing good, and that human beings will do nothing except for selfish motives

There is nothing so bad or so good that you will not find Englishmen doing it; but you will never find an Englishman in the wrong. He does everything on principle.

Assassination is the extreme form of censorship; and it seems hard to justify an incitement to it on anti-censorial principles.

Principles without programs are platitudes.

Well, sir, you never can tell. That's a principle in life with me, sir, if you'll excuse my having such a thing.