"The first condition of progress is the..." - Quote by George Bernard Shaw

“There may be some doubt as to who are the best people to have charge of children, but there can be no doubt that parents are the worst.”

“Just as the liar 's punishment is, not in the least that he is not believed , but that he cannot believe any one else; so a guilty society can more easily be persuaded that any apparently innocent act is guilty than that any apparently guilty act is innocent.”

“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.”

“A great change is at hand, and our task, our obligation, is to make that revolution, that change, peaceful and constructive for all.”

“The virtue of making two blades of grass grow where only one grew before does not begin to be superhuman.”

“In almost all sciences the fundamental knowledge is either found in earliest times or is still being sought.”

“All free peoples are deeply impressed by the courage and steadfastness of the Greek nation.”

“Being alone onstage is like legalized insanity.”

“People willing to trade their freedom for temporary security deserve neither and will lose both.”