(Democracy is a government) of the fools, for the fools, by the fools. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Our political experiment of democracy, the last refuge of cheap misgovernment. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
An election is a moral horror, as bad as a battle except for the blood; a mud bath for every soul concerned… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
To make Democracy work, you need an aristocratic democracy. To make Aristocracy work, you need a democratic aristocracy. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
If Despotism failed only for want of a capable benevolent despot, what chance has Democracy, which requires a whole population of capable… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Democracy means the organization of society for the benefit and at the expense of everybody indiscriminately and not for the benefit of… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The American Constitution, one of the few modern political documents drawn up by men who were forced by the sternest circumstances to… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The art of government is the organization of idolatry. The bureaucracy consists of functionaries; the aristocracy, of idols; the democracy, of idolaters.… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Unless the people can choose their leaders and rulers, and can revoke their choice at intervals long enough to test their measuresby… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Even under the most perfect Social Democracy we should, without Communism, still be living like hogs, except that each hog would get… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
I talk democracy to these men and women. I tell them that they have the vote, and that theirs is the kingdom… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Perhaps I had better inform my Protestant readers that the famous Dogma of Papal Infallibility is by far the most modest pretension… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
I love little children too but I don't cut off their heads and stick them in vases. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Blasphemy and sedition (meaning the truth about Church and State). — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
In the arts of life, man invents nothing; but in the arts of death he outdoes Nature herself, and produces by chemistry and machinery… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“My religious convictions and scientific views cannot at present be more specifically defined than as those of a believer in creative evolution. I desire… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
What a man believes may be ascertained, not from his creed, but from the assumptions on which he habitually acts. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
You are my inspiration and my folly. You are my light across the sea, my million nameless joys, and my day's wage. You are… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Men have to do some awfully mean things to keep up their respectability. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The schoolmaster is the person who takes the children off the parents' hands for a consideration. That is to say, he establishes a child… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The camera can represent flesh so superbly that, if I dared, I would never photograph a figure without asking that figure to take its… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
A man who is not a communist at the age of twenty is a fool. Any man who is still communist at the age… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
But to admire a strong person and to live under that strong person’s thumb are two different things. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
