George Bernard Shaw -- Irish dramatist, literary critic, socialist spokesman, 20th century theater figure, Nobel Laureate in Literature (1925), freethinker, defender of women's rights, and advocate of equality of income.
Shaw was always outspoken and frequently misinterpreted by the more conservative elements of society. Yet he managed to offer some keen insights on the human community and condition. Here are a few:
An election is a moral horror, as bad as a battle except for the blood; a mud bath for every soul concerned in it.
Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.
Find enough clever things to say, and you're a Prime Minister; write them down and you're a Shakespeare.
What do you think? Has he captured some truth?
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