"Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody can read."[As quoted in Literary Censorship in England (in Current Opinion, Vol. 55, No. 5, November 1913)]"
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George Bernard Shaw
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Quotes by George Bernard Shaw
"Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself."
"There is no sincerer love than the love of food."
"Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself."
"Schools and schoolmasters, as we have them today, are not popular as places of education and teachers, but rather prisons and turnkeys in which children are kept to prevent them disturbing and chaperoning their parent."
"Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations."
"I’m an atheist and I thank God for it."
"Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself."
"A photographer is like a cod, which produces a million eggs in order that one may reach maturity."
"If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you."
"In heaven an angel is no one in particular."
"A photographer is like a cod, which produces a million eggs in order that one may reach maturity."
"Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time."
"A miracle, my friend, is an event which creates faith."
"The man with toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound.The poverty stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man."
"A pessimist is a man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it."
"The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not."
"A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing."
"Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman. Believing what he read made him mad."
"First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity."