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Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
By George Bernard Shaw
Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.
By George Bernard Shaw
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
By George Bernard Shaw
Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.
By George Bernard Shaw
The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else.
By George Bernard Shaw
The moment we want to believe something, we suddenly see all the arguments for it, and become blind to the arguments against it.
By George Bernard Shaw
There is no subject on which more dangerous nonsense is talked and thought than marriage.
By George Bernard Shaw
When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.
By George Bernard Shaw
You cannot have power for good without having power for evil too. Even mother's milk nourishes murderers as well as heroes.
By George Bernard Shaw
We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.
By George Bernard Shaw
You can be as romantic as you please about love, Hector; but you mustn't be romantic about money.
By George Bernard Shaw
When I see that the nineteenth century has crowned the idolatry of Art with the deification of Love, so that every poet is supposed to have pi...
By George Bernard Shaw
When two people are under the influence of the most violent, most insane, most delusive, and most transient of passions, they are required to ...
By George Bernard Shaw
What God hath joined together no man ever shall put asunder: God will take care of that.
By George Bernard Shaw
What is any respectable girl brought up to do but to catch some rich man's fancy and get the benefit of his money by marrying him?—as if a m...
By George Bernard Shaw
Unless the law of marriage were first made human, it could never become divine.
By George Bernard Shaw
The universal regard for money is the one hopeful fact in our civilisation. Money is the most important thing in the world. It represents heal...
By George Bernard Shaw
The one point on which all women are in furious secret rebellion against the existing law is the saddling of the right to a child with the obl...
By George Bernard Shaw
The law of God is a law of change, and ... when the Churches set themselves against change as such, they are setting themselves against the la...
By George Bernard Shaw
The more reasonable a student was in mathematics, the more unreasonable she was in the affairs of real life, concerning which few trustworthy ...
By George Bernard Shaw
Of all the anti-social vested interests the worst is the vested interest in ill-health.
By George Bernard Shaw
Most married couples spend the whole day apart, the woman in the house, the man in the office or study or workshop.
By George Bernard Shaw