George Bernard Shaw Quotes on Democracy
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Our political experiment of democracy, the last refuge of cheap misgovernment, will ruin us if our citizens are ill bred.
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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.
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Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.[1]
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Democracy is a system ensuring that the people are governed no better than they deserve.
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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.