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.


The Two Pioneers - Quintessence Of Ibsenism (1891; 1913)

George Bernard Shaw Quotes

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...

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...

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...

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...