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Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.

— George Bernard Shaw

More from George Bernard Shaw

  1. You see things as they are and ask, 'Why?' I dream things as they never were and ask, 'Why not?'
  2. Political necessities sometimes turn out to be political mistakes.
  3. You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
  4. Scratch an Englishman and find a Protestant.
  5. All great truths begin as blasphemies.
  6. Must then a Christ perish in torment in every age to save those that have no imagination?
  7. As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death.
  8. Our natural dispositions may be good; but we have been badly brought up, and are full of anti-social personal ambitions and prejudices and …

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Topics in this quote

  • politics
  • justice
  • freedom
  • speech
  • violence
  • censorship

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