The art of government is the organization of idolatry. The bureaucracy consists of functionaries; the aristocracy, of idols; the democracy, of idolaters. The populace cannot understand the bureaucracy: it can only worship the national idols.
George Bernard ShawAn election is a moral horror, as bad as a battle except for the blood; a mud bath for every soul concerned in it.
George Bernard ShawWe are sick of war, we don't want to fight, And yet we gorge ourselves upon the dead.
George Bernard Shaw