George Bernard Shaw on Justice
Browse 8 quotations attributed to George Bernard Shaw, catalogued under justice, with dates where available.
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Attributed to George Bernard Shaw, entry #98662: "Never forget that if you leave your law to judges and your religion to bishops, you will presently find yourself without either law or religion."
Attributed to George Bernard Shaw, entry #194713: "Well, of course, they notice you. You always hide just in the middle of the limelight."
8 Quotes by George Bernard Shaw on Justice
"Never forget that if you leave your law to judges and your religion to bishops, you will presently find yourself without either law or religion."
"Well, of course, they notice you. You always hide just in the middle of the limelight."
"Consistency is the enemy of enterprise, just as symmetry is the enemy of art."
"When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport: when the tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity. The distinction between Crime and Justice is no greater."
"Where equality is undisputed, so also is subordination."
"He ain't a copper just look at 'is boots!"
"Just as the liar's punishment is, not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe any one else; so a guilty society can more easily be persuaded that any apparently innocent act is guilty than that any apparently guilty act is innocent."
"In this play a reference is made by a Chief of Police to the political necessity for killing people: a necessity so distressing to the statesmen and so terrifying to the common citizen that nobody except myself has ventured to examine it directly on its own merits, although every Government is obliged to practise it on a scale varying from the execution of a single murderer to the slaughter of millions of quite innocent persons. Whilst assenting to these proceedings, and even acclaiming and celebrating them, we dare not tell ourselves what we are doing or why we are doing it; and so we call it justice or capital punishment or our duty to king and country or any other convenient verbal whitewash for what we instinctively recoil from as from a dirty job. These childish evasions are revolting. We must strip off the whitewash and find out what is really beneath it. Extermination must be put on a scientific basis if it is ever to be carried out humanely and apologetically as well as thoroughly."