George Bernard Shaw Evolution Quotations

Hurrah for revolution and more cannon-shot! A beggar upon horseback lashes a beggar on foot. Hurrah for revolution and cannon come again! The beggars have changed places, but the lash goes on.

With the exception of capitalism, there is nothing so revolting as revolution.

All evolution in thought and conduct must at first appear as heresy and misconduct.

Disobedience, the rarest and most courageous of the virtues, is seldom distinguished from neglect, the laziest and commonest of the vices.

The most revolutionary invention of the Nineteenth Century was the artificial sterilization of marriage.

In your dread of dictators you established a state of society in which every ward boss is a dictator, every private employer a dictator, every financier a dictator, all with the livelihood of the workers at his mercy, and no public responsibility.

Revolutionary moments attract those who are not good enough for established institutions as well as those who are too good for them.

Revolutions have never lightened the burden of tyranny; they have only shifted it to another shoulder.