George Bernard Shaw Quotes

Men are not governed by justice, but by law or persuasion. When they refuse to be governed by law or persuasion, they have to be governed by force or fraud, or both.

George Bernard Shaw

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• In winter, the Icelanders told the tales of the brave men of old in their families, and so the tradition was handed on from father to son, the same stories told every winter, till all the particulars became well known.

  

  Sabine Baring-Gould
  • Men
  • Father
  • Son

• A ruler makes use of the majority and neglects the minority, and so he does not devote himself to virtue but to law.

  

  Han Fei
  • Law
  • Virtue
  • Himself

• There are so many more women and men who deserve opportunities. People of color. Period.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • People
  • Men
  • Women

• How do you deal with a criminal that will not listen to what you have to say and who continues his policy of violence? Some say you continue to talk and let him tire himself out. But nearly 40 years after the institution of apartheid, is there anyone who still believes that verbal persuasion will work?

  

  Oliver Tambo
  • Work
  • Violence
  • Persuasion

• When I first ran, being a woman in politics was seen as both a negative and also a positive. You could attract more women voters, but on the other hand, a lot of men wouldn't vote for you.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • Men
  • Women
  • Hand

• I like real people - salt-of-the-earth men.

  

  Tanit Phoenix
  • People
  • Men
  • Real

• I was born and raised in Zambia in 1969. At the time of my birth, blacks were not issued birth certificates, and that law only changed in 1973.

  

  Dambisa Moyo
  • Time
  • Law
  • Born

• Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Men
  • Age
  • Guilty

• Most visions of extraterrestrial life are actually steeped in human hubris. The fictional extraterrestrials of 'Star Trek' or a hundred other space operas are less alien than many of my neighbors. And funny, the ones running the place are mostly WASPish men.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Life
  • Men
  • Funny

• Men are just as sensitive, and in some ways more sensitive, than women are.

  

  Barbara De Angelis
  • Men
  • Women
  • Just

• Democracy is not just constitutional and legislative rules; it is a culture and practice and adhering by the law and respecting international human rights principles.

  

  Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa
  • Culture
  • Law
  • Democracy

• In law, nothing is certain but the expense.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Law
  • Nothing
  • Legal

• When a thing defies physical law, there's usually politics involved.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Law

• All his life he had lived by the law. Often his job had been to stop acts of revenge....And now revenge was all that life had left for him.

  

  Vernor Vinge
  • Life
  • Job
  • Law

• We are working around the clock to ensure Baltimore City remains at peace, as it has throughout the day.  The presence of the National Guard, Maryland State Police, and other law enforcement officials will continue in the days to come to ensure order is fully restored for the citizens of Baltimore.

  

  Larry Hogan
  • Law
  • Peace
  • City

• You tell me, since Independence, in the field of justice delivery, has so much work been accomplished anywhere? But, for news traders, these things perhaps are not saleable. Now you tell me if these things are pro-poor or not.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • Work
  • Justice

• In brief, when a man fails as a wallet, we put him in prison; when a woman fails as a mother, we offer her social services. We’re taking a criminal approach to men, a social services approach to women.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Men
  • Women
  • Mother

• What does labor want? We want more school houses and less jails. More books and less guns. More learning and less vice. More leisure and less greed. More justice and less revenge. We want more … opportunities to cultivate our better natures.

  

  Samuel Gompers
  • School
  • Learning
  • Justice

• I paused, watching the swallows; for they seemed to me the symbol, in their swift, sure curvetting, all daring and balance and surprise, of the delicate poise and motion of Art, that visits no two men alike, in a world where no two things of all the things there be, are quite the same.

  

  John Galsworthy
  • World
  • Men
  • Art

• What I find trying in a country which you do not understand and where you cannot speak, is that you can never be yourself.

  

  Freya Stark
  • Country
  • Trying
  • Speak

• For me, the American Dream was to go racing; for others, it's to pursue whatever their goals may be.

  

  Rick Mears
  • Dream
  • Pursue

• Personal relations are the important thing for ever and ever and not this outer life of telegrams and anger.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Life
  • Important

• Men are not governed by justice, but by law or persuasion. When they refuse to be governed by law or persuasion, they have to be governed by force or fraud, or both.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Men
  • Law
  • Justice