George Bernard Shaw

Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.

The art of government is the organization of idolatry. The bureaucracy consists of functionaries; the aristocracy, of idols; the democracy, of idolaters. The populace cannot understand the bureaucracy: it can only worship the national idols.

We must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.

If you injure your neighbour, better not do it by halves.

Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.

A man of my spiritual intensity does not eat corpses.

We are always paid for our suspicion by finding what we suspect.

How real is any of the past, being every moment revalued to make the present possible.

Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody reads.

It’s so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and then don’t say it.

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.

With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now.

I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me.

We aim above the mark to hit the mark.

Where a blood relation sobs, an intimate friend should choke up, a distant acquaintance should sigh, a stranger should merely fumble sympathetically with his handkerchief.

We are here to awaken from our illusion of separateness.

He is no wise man who will quit a certainty for an uncertainty.

It is not where you start but how high you aim that matters for success.

Whatever games are played with us, we must play no games with ourselves, but deal in our privacy with the last honesty and truth.

Be fearful when others are greedy and greedy when others are fearful.

Anyone who thinks must think of the next war as they would of suicide.