A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.
Quote by George Bernard Shaw
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A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.
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George Bernard Shaw Quotes
- Marriage is good enough for the lower classes: they have facilities for desertion that are denied to us.
- A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.
- The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
- There is no subject on which more dangerous nonsense is talked and thought than marriage.
- If all the economists were laid end to end, they'd never reach a conclusion.
- Old men are dangerous: it doesn't matter to them what is going to happen to the world.
- We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.
- Beware of false knowledge it is more dangerous than ignorance.
- Home life is no more natural to us than a cage is natural to a cockatoo.
- Animals are my friends... and I don't eat my friends.
Best Quotes
- I've been involved with violent movies, and then I've also said at a certain point, 'I can't take it anymore. Please cut it.' You know, you've got to respect the filmmaker, and it's a really tough issue.
- I think a simple rule of business is, if you do the things that are easier first, then you can actually make a lot of progress.
- People talk about doom-laden scenarios happening in the future: they are happening in Africa now. You can see it perfectly clearly. Periodic famines are due to too many people living on land that can't sustain them.
- At the end of the day it's got to be a good movie, it's got to be a funny movie, and it's got to make people think, 'Hey, I couldn't have spent my time any better.'
- We'll support the government on issues if it's essential to the country but our primary responsibility is not to prop up the government, our responsibility is to provide an opposition and an alternative government for Parliament and for Canadians.
- The political system is broken, the economy is broken and so is society. That is why people are so depressed about the state of our country.
- Home base is the support system where we have a culinary team, my own writers because of the shows and the books and stuff, we have a culinary team of about six people. Marketing, public relations, accounting and all that sort of stuff.
- Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow talent to the dark place where it leads.
- Teach a child what is wise, that is morality. Teach him what is wise and beautiful, that is religion!
- The old cathedrals are good, but the great blue dome that hangs over everything is better.