Famous quotes containing the words base and/or shifted:
“And all the popular statesmen say
That purity built up the State
And after kept it from decay;
Admonish us to cling to that
And let all base ambition be,
For intellect would make us proud....”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)
“Revolutions have never lightened the burden of tyranny: they have only shifted it to another shoulder.”
—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)