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Government Quotes by 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 the members of…
- It is said that every people has the Government it deserves. It is more to the point that every Government has the electorate it deserves;…
- The art of government is the organization of idolatry. The bureaucracy consists of functionaries; the aristocracy, of idols; the democracy, of idolaters. The populace cannot…
- Englishmen never will be slaves; they are free to do whatever the government and public opinion allow them.
- The policy of letting things alone, in the practical sense that the Government should never interfere with business or go into business itself, is called…
- I make a fortune from criticizing the policy of the government, and then hand it over to the government in taxes to keep it going.
- If the governments devalue the currency in order to betray all creditors, you politely call this procedure 'inflation'.
- All government is cruel; for nothing is so cruel as impunity.
- A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.
- Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
- Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.
- Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.
- The art of government is the organisation of idolatry.
- The ordinary man is an anarchist. He wants to do as he likes. He may want his neighbour to be governed, but he himself doesn't…
- The established government has no more right to call itself the state than the smoke of London has to call itself the weather.
- The art of government is the organization of idolatry.
- Government is not every body's job. It is a highly skilled vocation.
- (Democracy is a government) of the fools, for the fools, by the fools.
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