"I talk democracy to these men and..." - Quote by George Bernard Shaw

“It is not that I am so clever; it is that everyone else is so stupid.”

“Property is organized robbery.”

“When you want to put something into your part that is not in the play, you must ask the author-or some other author-to lead up to the interpolation for you. Never forget that the effect of a line may depend not on its delivery, but on something said earlier in the play, either by somebody else or by yourself, and that if you change it, it may be necessary to change the whole first act as well.”

“The ballot is stronger than the bullet.”

“Democracy is still upon its trial. The civic genius of our people is its only bulwark.”

“Our new Soviet constitution will, in my opinion, be the most democratic constitution of all those existing in the world.”

“Terrorism, War & Bankruptcy are caused by the privatization of money, issued as a debt and compounded by interest.”

“I find that the respectable man, so called, has immediately drifted from his position, and despairs of his country, when his country has more reason to despair of him. He forthwith adopts one of the candidatesas the only available one, thus proving that he is himself available for any purposes of the demagogue. His vote is of no more worth than that of any unprincipled foreigner or hireling native, who may have been bought.”

“Nations do not think, they only feel. They get their feelings at second hand through their temperaments, not their brains. A nation can be brought -- by force of circumstances, not argument -- to reconcile itself to any kind of government or religion that can be devised; in time it will fit itself to the required conditions; later it will prefer them and will fiercely fight for them.”