George Bernard Shaw Quotes About Politics
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Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
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A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.
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Patriotism is a pernicious, psychopathic form of idiocy.
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Assassination is the extreme form of censorship; and it seems hard to justify an incitement to it on anti-censorial principles.
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He knows nothing and thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.
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We mustn't be stiff and stand-off, you know. We must be thoroughly democratic, and patronize everybody without distinction of class.
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We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
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No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: he is always convinced that it says what he means.
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New opinions often appear first as jokes and fancies, then as blasphemies and treason, then as questions open to discussion, and finally as established truths.
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Whether you think Jesus was God or not, you must admit he was a first-rate political economist.
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Political necessities sometime turn out to be political mistakes.
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What Englishman will give his mind to politics as long as he can afford to keep a motor car?
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Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
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You have to choose between trusting to the natural stability of gold and the natural stability of the honesty and intelligence of the members of the government. And, with due respect to these gentlemen, I advise you, as long as the capitalist system lasts, to vote for gold.
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