George Bernard Shaw

The more I see of the moneyed classes, the more I understand the guillotine.

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.

Hell is paved with good intentions, not with bad ones. All men mean well.

Beware of the man who does not return your blow: he neither forgives you nor allows you to forgive yourself.

The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.

Science becomes dangerous only when it imagines that it has reached its goal.

We must train hard. It’s not about denying a weakness may exist but about denying its right to persist.

Every wall is a door.

Sobriety, severity, and self-respect are the foundations of all true sociality.

There are charms made only for distant admiration.

Universities are of course hostile to geniuses, which, seeing and using ways of their own, discredit the routine: as churches and monasteries persecute youthful saints.

Images also help me find and realise ideas. I look at hundreds of very different, contrasting images and I pinch details from them, rather like people who eat from other people

A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him, I may think aloud.

You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have truly lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.

There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him to sleep.

We know there is intention and purpose in the universe, because there is intention and purpose in us.

Every man I meet is in some way my superior.

If a man’s wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics.

Do what you love. Know you own bone; gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it, and gnaw it still.

Important encounters are planned by the souls long before the bodies see each other.

A little learning is a dangerous thing, but we must take that risk because a little is as much as our biggest heads can hold.