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

The test of a man or woman’s breeding is how they behave in a quarrel.

I was a freethinker before I knew how to think.

How can you dare teach a man to read until you’ve taught him everything else first?

Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does.

When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.

Love grows. Lust wastes by Enjoyment, and the Reason is, that one springs from an Union of Souls, and the other from an Union of Sense.

We live by our imagination, our admirations, and our sentiments.

I really do not see much use in exalting the humble and meek; they do not remain humble and meek long when they are exalted.

Ah! Sir, a boy’s being flogged is not so severe as a man’s having the hiss of the world against him.

No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters.

If you are idle, be not solitary; if you are solitary, be not idle.

We are paid for our suspicions by finding what we suspected.

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with success unexpected in common hours.

The disciplined are free.

Miracles, in the sense of phenomena we cannot explain, surround us on every hand: life itself is the miracle of miracles.

The need for change bulldozed a road down the center of my mind.

Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good;be good for something.All fables, indeed, have their morals; but the innocent enjoy the story. Let nothing come between you and the light. Respect men and brothers only. When you travel to the Celestial City, carry no letter of introduction. When you knock, ask to see God,

If there be three distinct and separate Persons, then three distinct and separate Substances. . . . And since the Father is God, the Son is God, and the Spirit is God . . . then unless the Father, Son and Spirit are three distinct Nothings, they must be three distinct Substances, and consequently three distinct Gods.

Every burned book enlightens the world.

She was no longer wrestling with the grief, but could sit down with it as a lasting companion and make it a sharer in her thoughts.