"It is very doubtful whether man is..." - Quote by George Bernard Shaw

“Don't ask me for promises until I know what I am promising.”

“I hate the poor and look forward eagerly to their extermination.”

“I don't. I look my age; and I am my age. It is the other people who look older than they are. What can you expect from people who eat corpses and drink spirits?”

“That is the problem with this rich and anguished generation. Somewhere a long time ago they fell in love with the idea that politicians- even the slickest and brightest presidential candidates- were real heroes and truly exciting people. That is wrong on its face. They are mainly dull people with corrupt instincts and criminal children.”

“Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods.”

“We shall one day learn to supersede politics by education. What we call our root-and-branch reforms of slavery, war, gambling, intemperance, is only medicating the symptoms. We must begin higher up, namely, in education.”

“I like the power given the Legislature to levy taxes, and for that reason solely approve of the greater house being chosen by the people directly.”

“An actual right is something that governments need merely to secure, not to implement.”

“I have a consistent rule: The American people should know as much about the Pentagon as the Soviet Union and China do, as much about General Motors as Ford does, and as much about City Bank as Chase Manhattan does.”