George Bernard Shaw

All censorships exist to prevent anyone from challenging current conceptions and existing institutions. All progress is initiated by challenging current conceptions, and executed by supplanting existing institutions. Consequently, the first condition of progress is the removal of censorship.

Englishmen hate Liberty and Equality too much to understand them. But every Englishman loves a pedigree.

The faults of the burglar are the qualities of the financier.

The natural term of the affection of the human animal for its offspring is six years.

Never waste jealousy on a real man: it is the imaginary man that supplants us all in the long run.

Youth, which is forgiven everything, forgives itself nothing: age, which forgives itself everything, is forgiven nothing.

Let us, if we must have great actions, make our own so. All action is of infinite elasticity, and the least admits of being inflated with celestial air, until it eclipses the sun and moon.

The only advantage of not being too good a housekeeper is that your guests are so pleased to feel how very much better they are.

The more you know the less you understand.

I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: “O Lord make my enemies ridiculous.” And God granted it.

If it doesn’t matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?

I never could tell a lie that anybody would doubt, nor a truth that anybody would believe.

The worst sin… is… to be indifferent.

And Barack and I were raised with so many of the same values, like you work hard for what you want in life. That your word is your bond; that you do what you say you’re going to do. That you treat people with dignity and respect, even if you don’t know them and even if you don’t agree with them.

First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity: no really self-respecting woman would take advantage of it.

The more experiments you make the better.

We are discreet sheep; we wait to see how the drove is going, and then go with the drove.

When the eye is not set on one leaf and you face the tree with nothing in mind, any number of leaves are visible to the eye.

Courage charms us, because it indicates that a man loves an idea better than all things in the world, that he is thinking neither of his bed, nor his dinner, nor his money, but will venture all to put in act the invisible thought of his mind.

All promise outruns performance.

Sunday is the core of our civilization, dedicated to thought and reverence.