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The benefits of society depend on how complex a code people will uphold, not on freedom from one
Drawn from what George Bernard Shaw said
What George Bernard Shaw actually said
- George Bernard Shaw Irish playwright and polemicist (1856 to 1950)
The advantages of living in society are proportionate, not to the freedom of the individual from a code, but to the complexity and subtlety of the code he is prepared not only to accept but to uphold as a matter of such vital importance that a lawbreaker at large is hardly to be tolerated on any plea.
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↗Preface to Major Barbara: First Aid to Critics (1906)gutenberg.org
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