"All government is cruel; for nothing is..." - Quote by George Bernard Shaw
All government is cruel; for nothing is so cruel as impunity.
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“Any sort of plain speaking is better than the nauseous sham good fellowship our democratic public men get up for shop use.”
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“Uncritical reverence for the Founding Fathers was less ubiquitous while they actually lived. . . . "The Reign of Terror that raged in America during the latter end of the Washington Administration, and the whole of that of Adams, is enveloped in mystery to me. That there were men in the Government hostile to the representative system, was once their toast, though it is now their overthrow, and therefore the fact is established against them."”
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“All one has to do to get one's stuff in the Congressional Record is to find a stenographer that can stay awake long enough to take it down. Then you mark in the 'Applause' and 'Laughter' parts yourself.”
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“Nature appears to have been the cruel stepmother rather than the mother of many animals.”
“Fear is cruel and mean.”
“King of the animals — as thou hast described him — I should rather say king of the beasts, thou being the greatest — because thou hast spared slaying them, in order that they may give thee their children for the benefit of the gullet, of which thou hast attempted to make a sepulchre for all animals; and I would say still more, if it were allowed me to speak the entire truth.”