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In Any Assembly The Simplest Way To Stop Transacting Business And Split The Ranks Is To Appeal To A Principle.

Intellect Has Nothing To Do With Equality Except To Respect It As A Sublime Convention.

Seeing Clearly Within Himself And Always Able To Dodge Around The Ends Of Any Position, Including His Own, Shaw Assumed From The Start The Dual Role Of Prophet And Gadfly. To His Contemporaries It Appeared Frivolous And Contradictory To Perform As Both Superman And Socialist, Sceptic And Believer, Legalist And Heretic, High-brow And Mob-orator. But Feeling The Duty To Teach As Well As To Mirror Mankind, Shaw Did Not Accept Himself As A Contradictory Being.

Democracy, To Maintain Itself, Must Repeatedly Conquer Every Cell And Corner Of The Nation. How Many Of Our Public Institutions And Private Businesses, Our Schools, Hospitals, And Domestic Hearths Are In Reality Little Fascist States Where Freedom Of Speech Is More Rigorously Excluded Than Vermin?

Vanity Is A Static Thing. It Puts It Faith In What It Has, And Is Easily Wounded. Pride Is Active, And Satisfied Only With What It Can Do, Hence Accustomed Not To Feel Small Stings.