"Anarchism is a game at which the..." - Quote by George Bernard Shaw

“I hate performers who debase great works of art; I long for their annihilation.”

“If the governments devalue the currency in order to betray all creditors, you politely call this procedure 'inflation'.”

“I am a brigand: I live by robbing the rich.' 'I am a gentleman: I live by robbing the poor.”

“Democracy is morose, and runs to anarchy, but in the state, and in the schools, it is indispensable to resist the consolidation ofall men into a few men.”

“The science of war leads one to dictatorship, pure and simple. The science of non-violence alone can lead one to pure democracy. Power based on love is thousand times more effective and permanent than power derived from fear of punishment. It is a blasphemy to say non-violence can be practiced only by individuals and never by nations which are composed of individuals. The nearest approach to purest anarchy would be a democracy based on non-violence. A society organized and run on the basis of complete non-violence would be the purest anarchy.”

“The ideally non-violent state will be an ordered anarchy.”

“And whether you're an honest man, or whether you're a thief, depends on whose solicitor has given me my brief.”

“Battledore and shuttlecock's a wery good game, vhen you an't the shuttlecock and two lawyers the battledores, in which case it gets too exciting to be pleasant.”

“Necessity is the mistress and guide of nature. Necessity is the theme and inventress of nature, her curb and her eternal law.”