3 George Bernard Shaw Quotes on Citizenship

George Bernard Shaw quotes on citizenship

28. Our natural dispositions may be good; but we have been badly brought up, and are full of anti-social personal ambitions and prejudices and snobberies. Had we not better teach our children to be better citizens than ourselves? We are not doing that at present. The Russians ARE. That is my last word. Think over it.

57. Our political experiment of democracy, the last refuge of cheap misgovernment, will ruin us if our citizens are ill bred.

252. Bernard Shaw remains the only model we have of what the citizen of a democracy should be: an informed participant in all things we deem important to the society and the individual.

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