The greatest of evils and the worst of crimes is poverty
our first duty a duty to which every other consideration
should be sacrificed is not to be poor.
Major Barbara
Preface
Money is the most important thing in the world. It represents
health, strength, honor, generosity, and beauty as conspicuously
as the want of it represents illness, weakness, disgrace,
meanness, and ugliness.
Major Barbara
Preface
Nobody can say a word against Greek: it stamps a man at once
as an educated gentleman.
Major Barbara
Act 1
Alcohol is a very necessary article
It makes life bearable
to millions of people who could not endure their existence
if they were quite sober. It enables Parliament to do things
at eleven at night that no sane person would do at eleven
in the morning.
Major Barbara
Act 2
I am a Millionaire. That is my religion.
Major Barbara
Act 2
I cant talk religion to a man with bodily hunger in
his eyes.
Major Barbara
Act 2
Wot prawce Selvytion nah
Major Barbara
Act 2
He knows nothing; and he thinks he knows everything. That
points clearly to a political career.
Major Barbara
Act 3
Like all young men, you greatly exaggerate the difference
between one young woman and another.
Major Barbara
Act 3
When you vote, you only change the names of the cabinet.
When you shoot, you pull down governments, inaugurate new
epochs, abolish old orders and set up new.
Major Barbara
Act 3
Nothing is ever done in this world until men are prepared
to kill one another if it is not done.
Major Barbara
Act 3
You cannot have power for good without having power for evil
too. Even mothers milk nourishes murderers as well as
heroes.
Major Barbara
Act 3
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