3 George Bernard Shaw Quotes on Civic

George Bernard Shaw quotes on civic

33. You in America should trust to that volcanic political instinct which I have divined in you.

59. We must either breed political capacity or be ruined by Democracy, which was forced on us by the failure of the older alternatives. Yet if Despotism failed only for want of a capable benevolent despot, what chance has Democracy, which requires a whole population of capable voters.

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.

     Attribution disputed; shown as originally published.