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

Man and Superman (1903) "Maxims for Revolutionists: Stray Sayings"

The truth is the one thing that nobody will believe.

George Bernard Shaw (2015). “The Collected Plays of George Bernard Shaw (Illustrated): Including Renowned Titles like Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, The Inca Of Perusalem, Macbeth Skit, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion”, p.374, e-artnow

Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.

Man and Superman (1903) "Maxims for Revolutionists: Liberty and Equality"

Old men are dangerous: it doesn't matter to them what is going to happen to the world.

George Bernard Shaw (2015). “The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more”, p.3694, e-artnow

If there was twenty ways of telling the truth and only one way of telling a lie, the Government would find it out. It's in the nature of governments to tell lies.

George Bernard Shaw (2015). “George Bernard Shaw: The Collected Plays (Illustrated): 60 plays including Caesar and Cleopatra, Pygmalion, Saint Joan, The Apple Cart, Cymbeline, Androcles And The Lion, The Man Of Destiny, The Inca Of Perusalem and Macbeth Skit”, p.2620, e-artnow

We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.

George Bernard Shaw (2007). “Back to Methuselah”, p.315, 1st World Publishing

If you can’t appreciate what you’ve got, you’d better get what you can appreciate.

George Bernard Shaw (2015). “The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Lectures, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more”, p.3417, e-artnow

The only time my education was interrupted was when I was in school.

Attributed in "Teaching as a Subversive Activity" by Neil Postman and Charles Weingartner, 1971.

He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches.

Man and Superman "Maxims for Revolutionists" (1903). A further extension appears in Jacob M. Braude, Speaker's Encyclopedia of Stories, Quotations, and Anecdotes (1955): "Those who can, do; those who can't teach; and those who can't do anything at all, teach the teachers."