New opinions often appear first as jokes and fancies, then as blasphemies and treason, then as questions open to discussion, and finally as established truths.

Quote by George Bernard Shaw

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I make a fortune from criticizing the policy of the government, and then hand it...

I make a fortune from criticizing the policy of the government, and then hand it...

In this world there is always danger for those who are afraid of it.

In this world there is always danger for those who are afraid of it.

I have not wasted my life trifling with literary fools in taverns, as Johnson did,...

I have not wasted my life trifling with literary fools in taverns, as Johnson did,...

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

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

First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.

First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.

I dread success. To have succeeded is to have finished one's business on earth, like...

I dread success. To have succeeded is to have finished one's business on earth, like...

Where there is no religion, hypocrisy becomes good taste

Where there is no religion, hypocrisy becomes good taste

Property is organized robbery.

Property is organized robbery.

There is no sincerer love than the love of food.

There is no sincerer love than the love of food.

Home is the girl's prison and the woman's workhouse.

Home is the girl's prison and the woman's workhouse.

A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence...

A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence...

What a man believes may be ascertained, not from his creed, but from the assumptions...

What a man believes may be ascertained, not from his creed, but from the assumptions...

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

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

The love of economy is the root of all virtue.

The love of economy is the root of all virtue.

You see things; and you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and...

You see things; and you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and...

A woman whose face looked as if it had been made of sugar and someone...

A woman whose face looked as if it had been made of sugar and someone...

Never waste jealousy on a real man: it is the imaginary man that supplants us...

Never waste jealousy on a real man: it is the imaginary man that supplants us...

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...

There are truths which one can only say after having won the right to say...

There are truths which one can only say after having won the right to say...

Freedom and order are not incompatible... truth is strength... free discussion is the very life...

Freedom and order are not incompatible... truth is strength... free discussion is the very life...