George Bernard Shaw Quotes About Progress
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The reasonable man will adjust to the demands of his environment. The unreasonable man expects his environment to adjust to his own needs. Therefore, all progress depends upon the unreasonable man.
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The first condition of progress is the removal of censorship.
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The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
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All censorships exist to prevent anyone from challenging current conceptions and existing institutions. All progress is initiated by challenging current conceptions, and executed by supplanting existing institutions. Consequently, the first condition of progress is the removal of censorship.
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All progress depends upon the unreasonable person.
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Remember that the progress of the world depends on your knowing better than your elders.
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All progress is due to the unreasonable person.
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Grain by grain, a loaf. Stone upon stone, a palace.
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Seemingly unreasonable people attempt to adapt the world to themselves. Much progress, therefore, depends on such people.
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All censorships exist to prevent anyone from challenging current conceptions and existing institutions.
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In an article on Bunyan lately published in the "Contemporary Review" - the only article on the subject worth reading on the subject I ever saw (yes, thank you, I am familiar with Macaulay's patronizing prattle about "The Pilgrim's Progress") etc.
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All progress depends on the unreasonable man.
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A man learns to skate by staggering about and making a fool of himself. Indeed he progresses in all things by resolutely making a fool of himself.
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Reasonable men adapt themselves to their environment; unreasonable men try to adapt their environment to themselves. Thus all progress is the result of the efforts of unreasonable men.
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The plain working truth is that it is not only good for people to be shocked occasionally, but absolutely necessary to the progress of society that they should be shocked pretty often.
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Men get tired of everything, of heaven no less than of hell; and that all history is nothing but a record of the oscillations of the world between these two extremes. An epoch is but a swing of the pendulum; and each generation thinks the world is progressing because it is always moving.
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Progress is impossible without change; and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
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Every step of progress means a duty repudiated, and a scripture torn up.
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All progress means war with society.
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Those who can’t change their minds can’t change anything.
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[Man] progresses in all things by making a fool of himself.
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Social progress takes effect through the replacement of all institutions by new ones; and since every institution involves the recognition of the duty of conforming to it, progress must involve the repudiation of an established duty at every step.
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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.
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