"Unbounded hopes were placed on each successive..." - Quote by George Bernard Shaw
Unbounded hopes were placed on each successive extension of the electoral franchise, culminating in the enfranchisement of women.These hopes have been disappointed, because the voters, male and female, being politically untrained and uneducated, have (a) no grasp of constructive measures; (b) loathe taxation as such; (c) dislike being governed at all; and (d) dread and resent any extension of official interference as an encroachment on their personal liberty.
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“When you find something funny search it for hidden truth.”
“Human misery is so appalling nowadays that if we allowed ourselves to dwell on it we should only add imaginary miseries of our own to the real miseries of others without doing them any good.”
“If you leave your art, the world will beat you back to it. The world has not an ambition worth sharing, or a prize worth handling.”
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“The saddest life is that of a political aspirant under democracy. His failure is ignominious and his success is disgraceful.”
“Of course, I do not believe in having everyone who is a liberal called a communist, or everyone who is conservative called a fascist.”
“Even in a fake democracy, people ought to get what they want once in a while.”
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“I was elected because I believed in what we call "grassroots politics," politics from the bottom up, not the top down.”
“One reason--perhaps the chief--of the virility of the Roosevelts is [their] very democratic spirit. They have never felt that because they were born in a good position they could put their hands in their pockets and succeed. They have felt, rather, that being born in a good position, there is no excuse for them if they did not do their duty by the community.”
“The rule of the bourgeois democrats [in pre-federal Germany], from the very first, will carry within it the seeds of its own destruction”