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Maxims for Revolutionists

by George Bernard Shaw

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DEMOCRACYIf the lesser mind could measure the greater as a foot-rule can measure a pyramid, there would be finality in universal suffrage. As it is, the political problem remains unsolved.Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.Democratic republics can no more dispense with national idols than monarchies with public functionaries.Government presents only one problem: the discovery of a trustworthy anthropometric method.… (more)
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DEMOCRACYIf the lesser mind could measure the greater as a foot-rule can measure a pyramid, there would be finality in universal suffrage. As it is, the political problem remains unsolved.Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.Democratic republics can no more dispense with national idols than monarchies with public functionaries.Government presents only one problem: the discovery of a trustworthy anthropometric method.

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