George Bernard Shaw Quotes

Men at a distance, who have admired our systems of government unfounded in nature, are apt to accuse the rulers, and say that taxes have been assessed too high and collected too rigidly.

Political criticism is our enemies' best friend.

We should encourage governments to be sustained by citizens' taxes - that is, democracies. Democracies will be enduring allies of America.

I love Canada. I am from Canada. I will bash the Canadian government but never Canada.

All governments must displease many persons, and these having now regular organs, and being able to express their sentiments, opinions adverse to the measures of government would often be expressed.

I am a writer—a comic and satirical writer. I am much better at poking fun at politicians who screw up than I am of telling them what to do.

Our job is to bash the President.

Nobody's wrong but England – and England's always wrong, Too late – or else too early – too soft – or else too strong. And when for once the wide world begins to praise her name Her own sons crowd and hurry to shout her back to shame.

It is kind of funny that the people who don't think Hillary Clinton is fit and healthy enough to be president are so worried that Hillary Clinton is fit and healthy enough to be president.

People sometimes ask me, "You're still in a primary - why are you criticizing [Donald] Trump?" It's because I don't want what he's saying to stand unanswered.

Those who are fond of setting things to rights, have no great objection to seeing them wrong.

My respect for the inconsiderable is assuming gigantic dimensions.

I have absolutely no problem with the press criticising policies and the things that we do, the things that we say.

I find you offensive for finding me offensive

Well, I say it's time to take Stephen Harper to the woodshed!

I can think of no better reason to vote against Obama than the prospect of an administration where any criticism of the President is treated as racism.

I shouldn't say bad things about the illiterate, though..I should write it. That way they won't find out.

Altruists, with thin, weak voices, denounce Christ as an egoist. Egoists (with even thinner and weaker voices) denounce Him as an altruist.

The world laughs at things it would really prefer to admire, and like Aesop's fox it criticizes things it covets.

[Hawthorne''s] pious blame is a chuckle of praise all the while.

Let us never forget this fundamental truth: The State has no source of money other than the money people themselves earn.

A large section of the intelligentsia seems wholly devoid of intelligence.

The sheer number of government employees and welfare recipients effectively transforms the purpose of government from maintaining order to confiscating as much as possible from vulnerable taxpayers.

We can applaud the state lottery as a public subsidy of intelligence, for it yields public income that is calculated to lighten the tax burden of us prudent abstainers at the expense of the benighted masses of wishful thinkers.