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Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.

Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.

George Bernard Shaw
Death, Witty, Government
The Shewing-up of Blanco Posnet preface (1911)

Life on board a pleasure steamer violates every moral and physical condition of healthy life except fresh air. . . . It is a guzzling, lounging, gambling, dog's life. The only alternative to excitement is irritability.

George Bernard Shaw
Dog, Travel, Gambling
George Bernard Shaw (1988). “Collected letters: 1926-1950”, Vintage

When the military man approaches, the world locks up its spoons and packs off its womankind.

George Bernard Shaw
Military, Men, Locks
'Man and Superman' (1903) act 3

Nothing is worth doing unless the consequences may be serious.

George Bernard Shaw
May, Serious, Rebellious
George Bernard Shaw (2015). “The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Lectures, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more”, p.2997, e-artnow

All great Truth first starts as Blasphemy.

George Bernard Shaw
Firsts, Blasphemy

The devil can quote Shakespeare for his own purpose.

George Bernard Shaw
Devil, Purpose

After studying the Hungarian language for years, I can confidently conclude that had Hungarian been my mother tongue, it would have been more precious. Simply because through this extraordinary, ancient and powerful language it is possible to precisely describe the tiniest differences and the most secretive tremors of emotions.

George Bernard Shaw
Mother, Powerful, Years

Life is a constant becoming: all stages lead to the beginning of others.

George Bernard Shaw
Becoming, Life Is, Stage

A happy family is but an earlier heaven.

George Bernard Shaw
Inspirational, Family, Happiness

It seems as though every time you learn something new you have to give up something.

George Bernard Shaw
Giving Up, Something New, New You

I also made it quite clear that Socialism means equality of income or nothing, and that under socialism you would not be allowed to be poor. You would be forcibly feed, clothed, lodged, taught, and employed whether you like it or not. If it were discovered that you had not character enough to be worth all this trouble, you might possibly be executed in a kindly manner; but whilst you were permitted to live you would have to live well.

George Bernard Shaw
Character, Mean, Equality

What is life but a series of inspired follies.

George Bernard Shaw
Pygmalion, Inspired, What Is Life
George Bernard Shaw (2016). “Pygmalion”, Xist Publishing

I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community and as long as I live, it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can.

George Bernard Shaw
Kwanzaa, True Joy, Privilege And Responsibility

The first condition of progress is the removal of censorship.

George Bernard Shaw
Progress, Firsts, Censorship
George Bernard Shaw (2015). “The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more”, p.1156, e-artnow

Lack of money is the root of of all evil.

George Bernard Shaw
Money, Roots, Greatest Wealth

The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation, because occupation means pre-occupation; and the pre-occupied person is neither happy nor unhappy, but simply alive and active. That is why it is necessary to happiness that one should be tired.

George Bernard Shaw
Tired, Mean, Secret
Parents and Children (1914) "Children's Happiness"

A family is a tyranny ruled over by it's weakest member.

George Bernard Shaw
Family, Members, Tyranny

Imitation is not just the sincerest form of flattery - it's the sincerest form of learning.

George Bernard Shaw
Learning, Flattery, Imitation

I was a freethinker before I knew how to think.

George Bernard Shaw
Thinking, Freethinker

I have to live for others and not for myself: that's middle-class morality.

George Bernard Shaw
Self, Pygmalion, Class
Pygmalion (1916) act 5

If there is anything I hate in a woman, it's want of character.

George Bernard Shaw
Hate, Character, Want
1898 Mrs Warren. Mrs Warren's Profession, act 2.

In the Middle Ages people believed that the earth was flat, for which they had at least the evidence of their senses: we believe it to be round, not because as many as 1 percent of us could give physical reasons for so quaint a belief, but because modern science has convinced us that nothing that is obvious is true, and that everything that is magical, improbable, extraordinary, gigantic, microscopic, heartless, or outrageous is scientific.

George Bernard Shaw
Believe, Science, Giving

A fashion is nothing but an induced epidemic.

George Bernard Shaw
Funny, Witty, Fashion

Everything I eat has been proved by some doctor or other to be a deadly poison, and everything I don't eat has been proved to be indispensable for life. But I go marching on.

George Bernard Shaw
Food, Doctors, Marching On

It is easy - terribly easy - to shake a man's faith in himself. To take advantage of that to break a man's spirit is devil's work.

George Bernard Shaw
Inspirational, Faith, Work
Candida (1898) act 1

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