Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.

Quote by George Bernard Shaw

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Few of us have vitality enough to make any of our instincts imperious.

Few of us have vitality enough to make any of our instincts imperious.

Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.

Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.

My main reason for adopting literature as a profession was that, as the author is...

My main reason for adopting literature as a profession was that, as the author is...

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.

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...

It is not disbelief that is dangerous to our society; it is belief

It is not disbelief that is dangerous to our society; it is belief

Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you...

Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you...

A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.

A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.

Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and...

Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and...

He's a man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man...

He's a man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man...

Beauty is all very well at first sight; but whoever looks at it when it...

Beauty is all very well at first sight; but whoever looks at it when it...

Old men are dangerous it doesn't matter to them what is going to happen to...

Old men are dangerous it doesn't matter to them what is going to happen to...

Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were...

Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were...

Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.

Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.

A man who has no office to go, to I don't care who he is,...

A man who has no office to go, to I don't care who he is,...

Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an...

Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an...

You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human...

You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human...

Every man over forty is a scoundrel.

Every man over forty is a scoundrel.

Find enough clever things to say, and you're a Prime Minister; write them down and...

Find enough clever things to say, and you're a Prime Minister; write them down and...

The natural term of the affection of the human animal for its offspring is six...

The natural term of the affection of the human animal for its offspring is six...