There have been summits of civilization at which heretics like Socrates, who was killed because he was wiser than his neighbors, have not been tortured, but ordered to kill themselves in the most painless manner known to their judges. But from that summit there was a speedy relapse into our present savagery.


Preface; Cruelty's Excuses - On the Rocks (1933)

George Bernard Shaw Quotes

There have been summits of civilization at which heretics like Socrates, who was killed because he was wiser than his neighbors, have not been...

There have been summits of civilization at which heretics like Socrates, who was killed because he was wiser than his neighbors, have not been...

There have been summits of civilization at which heretics like Socrates, who was killed because he was wiser than his neighbors, have not been...

There have been summits of civilization at which heretics like Socrates, who was killed because he was wiser than his neighbors, have not been...