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    Maxims for Revolutionists
    Maxims for Revolutionists
    Maxims for Revolutionists
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    Maxims for Revolutionists

    By Bernard Shaw

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    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateJan 26, 2013
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      Maxims for Revolutionists - Bernard Shaw

      Project Gutenberg's Maxims 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 answer the peasant's prayer, he beats it: when the flesh and blood idol does not satisfy the civilized man, he cuts its head off.

      He who slays a king and he who dies for him are alike idolaters.

      ROYALTY

      Kings are not born: they are made by artificial hallucination. When the process is interrupted by adversity at a critical age, as in the case of Charles II, the subject becomes sane and never completely recovers his kingliness.

      The Court is the servant's

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