"No community has ever yet passed beyond..." - Quote by George Bernard Shaw

“When a lion meets another with a louder roar, the first lion thinks the last a bore.”

“[...] any fool can make a discovery. Every baby has to discover more in the first years of its life than Roger Bacon ever discovered in his laboratory.”

“In a living society every day is a day of judgment; and its recognition as such is not the end of all things but the beginning ofa real civilization.”

“People seldom tell the truths that are worth telling. We ought to choose our truths as carefully as we choose our lies and to select our virtues with as much thought as we bestow upon the selection of our enemies.”

“To me the cynics are the ones in the boardrooms with the reports from the focus groups.”

“Don't you understand anything? Isn't it absolutely essential to keep a fierce Left and a fierce Right, both on their toes and each terrified of the other? That's how we get things done. Any opposition to the N.I.C.E. is represented as a Left racket in the Right papers and a Right racket in the Left papers. If it's properly done, you get each side outbidding the other in support of us-to refute the enemy slanders. Of course we're non-political. The real power always is.”

“Fit for the mountains and the barbarous caves, where manners ne'er were preached.”

“Water is a pioneer which the settler follows, taking advantage of its improvements.”

“Civilization has made man, if not always more bloodthirsty, at least more viciously, more horribly bloodthirsty.”