George Bernard Shaw

"Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve."

"The Golden Rule is that there are no golden rules."

"Better never to have been born than to grow up under the influence of a mother who does not love you."

"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."

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

"Lack of money is the root of all evil."

"Some men see things as they are and ask why. I dream things that never were and ask why not."

"Take care to get what you like, or you will be forced to like what you get."

"The worst sin towards our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them."

"Science has always been man's greatest adventure."

"What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child."

"I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy."

"Independence is happiness."

"Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance."

"The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to think about whether you are happy or not."

"All great truths begin as blasphemies."

"Forgive him, for he believes that the customs of his tribe are the laws of nature."

"A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell."

"The price of peace is eternal vigilance."

"Art is the only way to run away without leaving home."

"The true artist will let his wife starve, his children go barefoot, his mother drudge for his living at seventy, sooner than work at anything but his art."

"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself."

"Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh."

"The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function."

"Hatred is the coward's revenge for being intimidated."

"The earth is but one country, and mankind its citizens."

"Success is not guaranteed by hard work alone; you must also have the right attitude."

"The only man who never makes mistakes is the man who never tries anything new."

"In a rational world, people would be rewarded based on their talent and effort, not their appearance."

"I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live."