George Bernard Shaw

I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people.

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 censorships. There is the whole case against censorships in a nutshell.

It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.

Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.

My way of joking is to tell the truth. It is the funniest joke in the world.

A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.

Our moments of inspiration are not lost though we have no particular poem to show for them; for those experiences have left an indelible impression, and we are ever and anon reminded of them.

If you want the time to pass quickly, just give your note for 90 days.

I heartily accept the motto,That government is best which governs least; and I should like to see it acted up to more rapidly and systematically. Carried out, it finally amounts to this, which I also believe,That government is best which governs not at all; and when men are prepared for it, that will be the kind of government which they will have. Government is at best but an expedient; but most governments are usually, and all governments are sometimes, inexpedient.

Any so-called material thing that you want is merely a symbol: you want it not for itself, but because it will content your spirit for the moment.

Every hero becomes a bore at last.

It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.

Give me health and a day, and I will make the pomp of emperors ridiculous.

Awareness is the greatest agent for change.

There is nothing so bad or so good that you will not find an Englishman doing it; but you will never find an Englishman in the wrong. He does everything on principle. He fights you on patriotic principles; he robs you on business principles; he enslaves you on imperial principles.

Let him that would move the world, first move himself.

The foolish are like ripples on water, For whatsoever they do is quickly effaced; But the righteous are like carvings upon stone, For their smallest act is durable.

I answer the heroic question Death where is thy sting? It is here in my heart and mind and memories

The third component of the Law of Dharma is service to humanity–to serve your fellow human beings and to ask yourself the questions,How can I help? How can I help all those that I come into contact with? When you combine the ability to express your unique talent with service to humanity, then you make full use of the Law of Dharma.

Condense some daily experience into a glowing symbol and an audience is electrified.

Friends, such as we desire, are dreams and fables.