Who said that “Oh! Disrespectable democracy! I love you!”?
(A) G.B. Shaw
(B) Carpenter
(C) Lord Bryce
(D) Appa Dorai
Correct Answer : G.B. Shaw
Question Asked : SSC CPO (SI, ASI & Intelligence Officer) Exam 2011 (Paper-I)
Explanation : These were, the famous words of George Bernard Shaw who was an Irish playwright and a co-founder of the London School of Economics. Shaw asserted that each social class strove to serve its own ends, and that the upper and middle classes won in the struggle while the working class lost. He condemned the democratic system of his time, saying that workers, ruthlessly exploited by greedy employers, lived in abject poverty and were too ignorant and apathetic to vote intelligently.
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