George Bernard Shaw Quotes, Challenges Quotes, Progress Quotes

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.

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The Indian way of life provides the vision of the natural, real way of life. We veil ourselves with unnatural masks. On the face of India are the tender expressions which carry the mark of the Creators hand.

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I am a sort of collector of religions: and the curious thing is that I find I can believe in them all.

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But a mother is like a broomstick or like the sun in the heavens, it does not matter which as far as one's knowledge of her is concerned: the broomstick is there and the sun is there; and whether the child is beaten by it or warmed and enlightened by it, it accepts it as a fact in nature, and does not conceive it as having had youth, passions, and weaknesses, or as still growing, yearning, suffering, and learning.

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Custom will reconcile people to any atrocity, and fashion will drive them to acquire any custom.

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Only where there is pecuniary equality can the distinction of merit stand out.

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Orchestras only need to be sworn at, and a German is consequently at an advantage with them, as English profanity, except in America, has not gone beyond a limited technology of perdition.

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Pothinus: "Is it possible that Caesar, the conqueror of the world, has time to occupy himself with such a trifle as our taxes?" Caesar: "My friend, taxes are the chief business of a conqueror of the world.

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Go anywhere in England where there are natural wholesome, contented and really nice English people; and what do you find? That the stables are the real centre of the household.

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The truth sticks in our throats with all the sauces it is served with: it will never go down until we take it without any sauce at all.

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All progress means war with society.

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There is, on the whole, nothing on earth intended for innocent people so horrible as a school. To begin with, it is a prison. But in some respects more cruel than a prison. In a prison, for instance, you are not forced to read books written by the warders and the governor. . . .In the prison you are not forced to sit listening to turnkeys discoursing without charm or interest on subjects that they don't understand and don't care about, and therefore incapable of making you understand or care about. In a prison they may torture your body; but they do not torture your brains.

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Hate is the revenge of a coward intimidated.

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Hollywood keeps before its child audiences a string of glorified young heroes, everyone of whom is an unhesitating and violent Anarchist. His one answer to everything that annoys him or disparages his country or his parents or his young lady or his personal code of manly conduct is to give the offender a "sock" in the jaw.... My observation leads me to believe that it is not the virtuous people who are good at socking jaws.

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A man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.

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Every step of progress means a duty repudiated, and a scripture torn up.

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Your father is a fool skin deep; but you are a fool to your very marrow.

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Give a man health and a course to steer, and he'll never stop to trouble about whether he's happy or not.

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The possibilities are numerous once we decide to act and not react.

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The road to ignorance is paved with good editions. Only the illiterate can afford to buy good books now.

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