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Quotes by George Bernard Shaw
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Never resist temptation: prove all things: hold fast that which is good.
yourself it is an impertinence: if on bad, an injury.
The golden rule is that there are no golden rules.
The art of government is the organization of idolatry.
The bureaucracy consists of functionaries; the aristocracy, of idols;
the democracy, of idolaters.
idols of flesh and blood.
idol with the credibility of a flesh and blood one.
When the wooden idol does not answer the peasant's prayer, he beats it:
He who slays a king and he who dies for him are alike idolaters.
The Court is the servant's hall of the sovereign.
Vulgarity in a king flatters the majority of the nation.
political problem remains unsolved.
monarchies with public functionaries.
Excess of insularity makes a Briton an Imperialist.
Excess of local self-assertion makes a colonist an Imperialist.
Imperialist, "cuts the painter" and breaks up the Empire.
with similarity has never thought for five minutes about either.
Nothing can be unconditional: consequently nothing can be free.
Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
equally if they murder him.
Where equality is undisputed, so also is subordination.
Equality is fundamental in every department of social organization.
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