Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.
George Bernard Shaw
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More quotes by George Bernard Shaw
- Every man over forty is a scoundrel.
- Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can't sleep with the window open.
- Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.
- A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.
- She had lost the art of conversation but not, unfortunately, the power of speech.