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

Quote by George Bernard Shaw

Topics: Competence Quotes

The slave of fear: the worst of slaveries

The slave of fear: the worst of slaveries

Animals are my friends, and I don't eat my friends

Animals are my friends, and I don't eat my friends

May you live in interesting times

May you live in interesting times

Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window...

Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window...

First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.

First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.

Orchestras only need to be sworn at, and a German is consequently at an advantage...

Orchestras only need to be sworn at, and a German is consequently at an advantage...

First love is a little foolish and a lot of curiosity.

First love is a little foolish and a lot of curiosity.

I write plays because I like it and because I cannot remember any period in...

I write plays because I like it and because I cannot remember any period in...

You see things; and you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and...

You see things; and you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and...

I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to...

I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to...

Self-sacrifice enables us to sacrifice other people without blushing.

Self-sacrifice enables us to sacrifice other people without blushing.

We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility...

We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility...

Hell is paved with good intentions, not bad ones

Hell is paved with good intentions, not bad ones

Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.

Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.

I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.

I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.

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...

Must then Christ perish in torment in every age to save those that have no...

Must then Christ perish in torment in every age to save those that have no...

Never waste jealousy on a real man: it is the imaginary man that supplants us...

Never waste jealousy on a real man: it is the imaginary man that supplants us...

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...

Americans adore me and will go on adoring me until I say something nice about...

Americans adore me and will go on adoring me until I say something nice about...