Shaw

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    Civilized society is one huge bourgeoisie: no nobleman dares now shock his greengrocer.
    —George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)

    Unless the people can choose their leaders and rulers, and can revoke their choice at intervals long enough to test their measures by results, the government will be a tyranny exercised in the interests of whatever classes or castes or mobs or cliques have this choice.
    —George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)

    There is the eternal war between those who are in the world for what they can get out of it and those who are in the world to make it a better place for everybody to live in.
    —George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)