Politics Quotes by George Bernard Shaw

The art of government is the organization of idolatry.

— George Bernard Shaw

A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.

— George Bernard Shaw

He knows nothing; and he thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.

— George Bernard Shaw

The art of government is the organisation of idolatry.

— George Bernard Shaw

“A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.”

— George Bernard Shaw

Political necessities sometime turn out to be political mistakes.

— George Bernard Shaw

Englishmen never will be slaves; they are free to do whatever the government and public opinion allow them.

— George Bernard Shaw

Government is not every body's job. It is a highly skilled vocation.

— George Bernard Shaw

Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.

— George Bernard Shaw

We mustn't be stiff and stand-off, you know. We must be thoroughly democratic, and patronize everybody without distinction of class.

— George Bernard Shaw

The politician who once had to learn to flatter Kings has now to learn how to fascinate, amuse, coax, humbug, frighten, or…

— George Bernard Shaw

Patriotism is, fundamentally, a conviction that a particular country is the best in the world because you were born in it...

— George Bernard Shaw

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

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

A part of eugenic politics would finally land us in an extensive use of the lethal chamber. A great many people would…

— George Bernard Shaw

If the governments devalue the currency in order to betray all creditors, you politely call this procedure 'inflation'.

— George Bernard Shaw

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

Men trifle with their business and their politics but never trifle with their games. It brings truth home to them. They cannot…

— George Bernard Shaw

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

You are all fundamentalists with a top dressing of science. That is why you are the stupidest of conservatives and reactionists in…

— George Bernard Shaw

It's usually pointed out that women are not fit for political power, and ought not to be trusted with a vote because…

— George Bernard Shaw

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

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

The art of manipulating public opinion, which is a necessary art for the democratic politician, and, like other arts, is sometimespractised with…

— George Bernard Shaw

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

“Eliza has no use for the foolish romantic tradition that all women love to be mastered, if not actually bullied and beaten.…

— George Bernard Shaw

(Democracy is a government) of the fools, for the fools, by the fools.

— George Bernard Shaw

All government is cruel; for nothing is so cruel as impunity.

— George Bernard Shaw

Whether you think Jesus was God or not, you must admit he was a first-rate political economist.

— George Bernard Shaw

What Englishman will give his mind to politics as long as he can afford to keep a motor car?

— George Bernard Shaw

Our political experiment of democracy, the last refuge of cheap misgovernment.

— George Bernard Shaw

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

He who confuses political liberty with freedom and political equality with similarity has never thought for five minutes about either.

— George Bernard Shaw

You have a choice of trusting the natural stability of gold, or the honesty and intelligence of members of government.

— George Bernard Shaw

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

— George Bernard Shaw

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

“When you vote, you only change the names of the cabinet. When you shoot, you pull down governments, inaugurate new epochs, abolish…

— George Bernard Shaw

“The power to exterminate is too grave to be left in any hands but those of a thoroughly Communist government.”

— George Bernard Shaw