Mrs. Warren's Profession Quotes

“People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. 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.”
― George Bernard Shaw, Mrs. Warren's Profession

“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.”
― George Bernard Shaw, Mrs. Warren's Profession

“There are no secrets better kept than the secrets that everybody guesses.”
― George Bernard Shaw, Mrs. Warren's Profession

“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.”
― George Bernard Shaw, Mrs. Warren's Profession & Others

“Everybody has choices, Mother. The poorest girl alive may not be able to choose between being Queen of England or Principal of Newnham; but she can choose between rag-picking and flower-selling, according to her taste. People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. 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.”
― George Bernard Shaw, Mrs. Warren's Profession

“I am convinced that fine art is the subtlest, the most seductive, the most effective instrument of moral propaganda in the world, excepting only the example of personal conduct; and I waive even this exception in favor of the art of the stage, because it works by exhibiting examples of personal conduct made intelligible and moving to crowds of unobservant, unreflecting people to whom real life means nothing.”
― George Bernard Shaw, Mrs. Warren's Profession

“But I cant stand saying one thing when everyone knows I mean another. Whats the use in such hypocrisy? If people arrange the world that way for women, theres no good pretending it’s arranged the other way...”
― George Bernard Shaw, Mrs. Warren's Profession

“All censorships exist to prevent anyone from challenging current conceptions and existing institutions. All progress is initiated by challenging current concepts, and executed by supplanting existing institutions. Consequently the first condition of progress is the removal of censorships. There is the whole case against censorships in a nutshell.”
― George Bernard Shaw, Mrs. Warren's Profession

“Women have to pretend to feel a good deal that they don't feel”
― George Bernard Shaw, Mrs. Warren's Profession