George Bernard Shaw
George Bernard Shaw
George Bernard Shaw, known at his insistence simply as Bernard Shaw, was an Irish playwright, critic and polemicist whose influence on Western theatre, culture and politics extended from the 1880s to his death and beyond. He wrote more than sixty plays, including major works such as Man and Superman, Pygmalionand Saint Joan. With a range incorporating both contemporary satire and historical allegory, Shaw became the leading dramatist of his generation, and in 1925 was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature...
NationalityIrish
ProfessionPlaywright
Date of Birth26 July 1856
CityDublin, Ireland
CountryIreland
The art of government is the organization of idolatry
The government who robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.
If you are going to let the fear of poverty govern your life, your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live.
Government is not every body's job. It is a highly skilled vocation.
The art of government is the organization of idolatry. The bureaucracy consists of functionaries; the aristocracy, of idols; the democracy, of idolaters. The populace cannot understand the bureaucracy: it can only worship the national idols.
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.
Have you no morals, man?' 'Can't afford them,Governor.
All government is cruel; for nothing is so cruel as impunity.
If the governments devalue the currency in order to betray all creditors, you politely call this procedure 'inflation'.
I make a fortune from criticizing the policy of the government, and then hand it over to the government in taxes to keep it going.
Englishmen never will be slaves; they are free to do whatever the government and public opinion allow them.
The art of government is the organisation of idolatry.
You have a choice of trusting the natural stability of gold, or the honesty and intelligence of members of government.
Unless the people can choose their leaders and rulers, and can revoke their choice at intervals long enough to test their measuresby results, the government will be a tyranny exercised in the interests of whatever classes or castes or mobs or cliques have this choice.