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for Revolutionists, by George Bernard Shaw
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Title: Maxims for Revolutionists
Author: George Bernard Shaw
Release Date: July 22, 2008 [EBook #26107]
Language: English
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Maxims for Revolutionists
by
George Bernard Shaw
(1856-1950)
THE GOLDEN RULE
Do not do unto others as you would that they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.
Never resist temptation: prove all things: hold fast that which is good.
Do not love your neighbor as yourself. If you are on good terms with yourself it is an impertinence: if on bad, an injury.
The golden rule is that there are no golden rules.
IDOLATRY
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.
The savage bows down to idols of wood and stone: the civilized man to idols of flesh and blood.
A limited monarchy is a device for combining the inertia of a wooden idol with the credibility of a flesh and blood one.
When the wooden idol does not answe