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Politics Quotes by 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 pretend they have…
- A part of eugenic politics would finally land us in an extensive use of the lethal chamber. A great many people would have to be…
- 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…
- Assassination is the extreme form of censorship; and it seems hard to justify an incitement to it on anti-censorial principles.
- You are all fundamentalists with a top dressing of science. That is why you are the stupidest of conservatives and reactionists in politics and the…
- We mustn't be stiff and stand-off, you know. We must be thoroughly democratic, and patronize everybody without distinction of class.
- Whether you think Jesus was God or not, you must admit he was a first-rate political economist.
- 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.
- No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means.
- He knows nothing and thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.
- Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
- We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
- What Englishman will give his mind to politics as long as he can afford to keep a motor car?
- I have never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from other men. There is…
- Patriotism is, fundamentally, a conviction that a particular country is the best in the world because you were born in it...
More Politics Quotes
- The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution. — Hannah Arendt
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being. — Hannah Arendt
- Under every stone lurks a politician. — Aristophanes
- Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers. — Aristotle
- In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of… — Aristotle
- A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler… — Aristotle
- Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms. — Aristotle
- Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness. — Aristotle
- Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms. — Aristotle
- Man is by nature a political animal. — Aristotle
- Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics. — Aristotle