Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.

Quote by George Bernard Shaw

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I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me...

I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me...

He who has never hoped can never despair

He who has never hoped can never despair

The secret of forgiving everything is to understand nothing

The secret of forgiving everything is to understand nothing

There is nothing more dangerous than the conscience of a bigot.

There is nothing more dangerous than the conscience of a bigot.

Martyrdom: The only way a man can become famous without ability.

Martyrdom: The only way a man can become famous without ability.

You can easily find people who are ten times as rich at sixty as they...

You can easily find people who are ten times as rich at sixty as they...

No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very...

No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very...

An index is a great leveller.

An index is a great leveller.

Science... never solves a problem without creating ten more.

Science... never solves a problem without creating ten more.

We should all be obliged to appear before a board every five years and justify...

We should all be obliged to appear before a board every five years and justify...

A lifetime of happiness? No man could bear it: it would be hell on earth

A lifetime of happiness? No man could bear it: it would be hell on earth

Give a man health and a course to steer, and he'll never stop to trouble...

Give a man health and a course to steer, and he'll never stop to trouble...

The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and...

The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and...

Martyrdom, sir, is what these people like; it is the only way in which a...

Martyrdom, sir, is what these people like; it is the only way in which a...

Decency is indecency's conspiracy of silence

Decency is indecency's conspiracy of silence

If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of...

If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of...

Hatred is the coward's revenge for being intimidated.

Hatred is the coward's revenge for being intimidated.

We don't stop playing because we grow old; We grow old because we stop playing.

We don't stop playing because we grow old; We grow old because we stop playing.

I accept chaos, I'm not sure whether it accepts me.

I accept chaos, I'm not sure whether it accepts me.

What if the Hokey Pokey really IS what it's all about?

What if the Hokey Pokey really IS what it's all about?