The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them

Quote by George Bernard Shaw

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There is nothing more dangerous than the conscience of a bigot.

There is nothing more dangerous than the conscience of a bigot.

My reputation grows with every failure.

My reputation grows with every failure.

Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.

Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.

Every person who has mastered a profession is a skeptic concerning it.

Every person who has mastered a profession is a skeptic concerning it.

Nothing is ever done in this world until men are prepared to kill one another...

Nothing is ever done in this world until men are prepared to kill one another...

My main reason for adopting literature as a profession was that, as the author is...

My main reason for adopting literature as a profession was that, as the author is...

The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the...

The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the...

The minority is sometimes right; the majority always wrong.

The minority is sometimes right; the majority always wrong.

Disobedience, the rarest and most courageous of the virtues, is seldom distinguished from neglect, the...

Disobedience, the rarest and most courageous of the virtues, is seldom distinguished from neglect, the...

People get nothing out of books but what they bring to them.

People get nothing out of books but what they bring to them.

Hatred is the coward's revenge for being intimidated.

Hatred is the coward's revenge for being intimidated.

The man with a toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty-stricken man...

The man with a toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty-stricken man...

If parents would only realize how they bore their children!

If parents would only realize how they bore their children!

Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you...

Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you...

If you injure your neighbour, better not do it by halves.

If you injure your neighbour, better not do it by halves.

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

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

Human beings are the only animals of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid.

Human beings are the only animals of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid.

Life levels all men. Death reveals the eminent.

Life levels all men. Death reveals the eminent.

I mourn the loss of thousands of precious lives, but I will not rejoice in...

I mourn the loss of thousands of precious lives, but I will not rejoice in...

Fear of death has been the greatest ally of tyranny past and present.

Fear of death has been the greatest ally of tyranny past and present.