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Letter "G" » George Bernard Shaw Quotes
«Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody reads.»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| About:
Censorship
| Keywords:
censorship, logical, reads, the books
«Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| About:
Competence,
Democracy
| Keywords:
appointment, by election, corrupt, election, election of, incompetent, incompetents, substitutes
«Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
affairs, as well, breath, draws, each month, except, manages, man of affairs, months, month by month, nine, Nine Months, No Man, The Affair, This month, Tree
«The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and about all time.»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
all-time, The Man, The Man Who, writes
«If any religion had the chance of ruling over England, nay Europe within the next hundred years, it could be Islam»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| About:
Religion
| Keywords:
England, Europe, Islam, nay, ruling
«Youth is wasted on the young.»
«Patriotism is a pernicious, psychopathic form of idiocy»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| About:
Patriotism
| Keywords:
idiocy, patriotism, pernicious, psychopathic
«No sooner had Jesus knocked over the dragon of superstition then Paul boldly set it on its legs again in the name of Jesus»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
boldly, dragon, knocked, Paul, Paul A, Paul I
«A little learning is a dangerous thing, but we must take that risk because a little is as much as our biggest heads can hold.»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
a little, biggest, Big Thing, dangerous, heads, hold, learning, much as, risk, Take That, taking hold
«Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.»
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