5 George Bernard Shaw Quotes on Democracy

George Bernard Shaw quotes on democracy

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

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.

112. Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.[1]

206. Democracy is a system ensuring that the people are governed no better than they deserve.

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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