13 Oscar Wilde Quotes on Politics

Oscar Wilde quotes on politics

22. On [George Bernard Shaw] An excellent man: he has no enemies, and none of his friends like him.

38. The one duty we owe to history is to rewrite it.

40. As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular.

56. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.

135. Mrs. Allonby: They say, Lady Hunstanton, that when good Americans die they go to Paris. Lady Hunstanton: Indeed? And when bad Americans die, where do they go to? Lord Illingworth: Oh, they go to America.

138. Kelvil: May I ask, Lord Illingworth, if you regard the House of Lords as a better institution than the House of Commons? Lord Illingworth: A much better institution of course. We in the House of Lords are never in touch with public opinion. That makes us a civilised body.

143. The growing influence of women is the one reassuring thing in our political life.

194. Disobedience, in the eyes of any one who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion.

195. A map of the world that does not include Utopia is not worth even glancing at, for it leaves out the one country at which Humanity is always landing.

196. High hopes were once formed of democracy; but democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.

204. In the old days men had the rack. Now they have the Press.

228. America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between (also attributed to George Bernard Shaw and Georges Clemenceau).

240. Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.