Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody reads.

Quote by George Bernard Shaw

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The only secrets are the secrets that keep themselves.

The only secrets are the secrets that keep themselves.

Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and...

Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and...

No king on earth is as safe in his job as a Trade Union official....

No king on earth is as safe in his job as a Trade Union official....

Government is not every body's job. It is a highly skilled vocation.

Government is not every body's job. It is a highly skilled vocation.

Youth is wasted on the young.

Youth is wasted on the young.

Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.

Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.

Experience fails to teach where there is no desire to learn.

Experience fails to teach where there is no desire to learn.

Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.

Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.

The truth is, hardly any of us have ethical energy enough for more than one...

The truth is, hardly any of us have ethical energy enough for more than one...

Patriotism is a pernicious, psychopathic form of idiocy

Patriotism is a pernicious, psychopathic form of idiocy

The first condition of progress is the removal of censorship.

The first condition of progress is the removal of censorship.

The harder I work the more I live.

The harder I work the more I live.

The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are...

The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are...

Common people do not pray, my lord: they only beg

Common people do not pray, my lord: they only beg

I'm an atheist and I thank God for it.

I'm an atheist and I thank God for it.

I am a Christian. That obliges me to be a Communist.

I am a Christian. That obliges me to be a Communist.

Beauty is all very well at first sight; but who looks at it when it...

Beauty is all very well at first sight; but who looks at it when it...

A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of...

A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of...

People in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than governments.

People in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than governments.

If it is dangerous to suppose that government is always right, it will sooner or...

If it is dangerous to suppose that government is always right, it will sooner or...