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“It is necessary for the welfare of society that genius should be privileged to utter sedition, to blaspheme, to outrage good taste, to corrupt the youthful mind, and generally to scandalize one's uncles.” quote by George Bernard Shaw — Download Open image

“It is necessary for the welfare of society that genius should be privileged to utter sedition, to blaspheme, to outrage good taste, to corrupt the youthful mind, and generally to scandalize one's uncles.”

George Bernard Shaw

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Blasphemy and sedition (meaning the truth about Church and State).

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“My religious convictions and scientific views cannot at present be more specifically defined than as those of a believer in creative evolution. I desire that no public monument or work of art or inscription or sermon or ritual service commemorating me shall suggest that I accepted the tenets peculiar to any established church or denomination nor take the form of…

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What a man believes may be ascertained, not from his creed, but from the assumptions on which he habitually acts.

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Men have to do some awfully mean things to keep up their respectability.

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The schoolmaster is the person who takes the children off the parents' hands for a consideration. That is to say, he establishes a child prison, engages a number of employee schoolmasters as turnkeys, and covers up the essential cruelty and unnaturalness of the situation by torturing the children if they do not learn, and calling this process, which is within…

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As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death.

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But to admire a strong person and to live under that strong person’s thumb are two different things.

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One is not born a genius, one becomes a genius; and the feminine situation has up to the present rendered this becoming practically impossible.

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The beginning of genius is being scared shitless.

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Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.

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