"Let a short Act of Parliament be..." - Quote by George Bernard Shaw
Let a short Act of Parliament be passed, placing all street musicians outside the protection of the law, so that any citizenmay assail them with stones, sticks, knives, pistols or bombs without incurring any penalties.
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“Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.”
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“Nothing can be more abhorrent to democracy than to imprison a person or keep him in prison because he is unpopular. This is really the test of civilization.”
“Every actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey the laws too well. What satire on government can equal the severity of censure conveyed in the word politics ....?”
“Crime is only the retail department of what, in wholesale, we call penal law.”
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“Man has got to take charge of Man.... Then real education, including pre-natal education. By real education I mean one that has no 'take-it-or-leave-it' nonsense. A real education makes the patient what it wants infallibly: whatever he or his parents try to do about it. Of course, it'll have to be mainly psychological at first. But we'll get on to biochemical conditioning int he end and direct manipulation of the brain.”
“No matter how you seem to fatten on a crime, there can never be good for the bee which is bad for the hive.”
“What is called honors and dignities, and even honor and dignity, is generally fool's gold.”