Englishmen never will be slaves; they are free to do whatever the government and public opinion allow them. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Government is not every body's job. It is a highly skilled vocation. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
I make a fortune from criticizing the policy of the government, and then hand it over to the government in taxes to… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
You have a choice of trusting the natural stability of gold, or the honesty and intelligence of members of government. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The ordinary man is an anarchist. He wants to do as he likes. He may want his neighbour to be governed, but… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
If the governments devalue the currency in order to betray all creditors, you politely call this procedure 'inflation'. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The established government has no more right to call itself the state than the smoke of London has to call itself the… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
If there was twenty ways of telling the truth and only one way of telling a lie, the Government would find it… — 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
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
It is said that every people has the Government it deserves. It is more to the point that every Government has the… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
You have to choose between trusting to the natural stability of gold and the natural stability of the honesty and intelligence 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
The policy of letting things alone, in the practical sense that the Government should never interfere with business or go into business… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“As it is not a settled question, you must clear your mind of the fancy with which we all begin as children,… — 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