Favorite Lines from G.B. Shaw's "The Revolutionist's Handbook"

From the Pamphlet appended to the end of Shaw's seminal (and delightful) 1903 play "Man and Superman." (Serious, why isn't Shaw as adored nowadays as, say, Oscar Wilde?!)

•  "Do not unto others as you would have them do unto you.  Their tastes may not be the same."
• "Excess of insularity makes a Briton an Imperialist."  (Americans, too, I would argue).
• "Liberty means responsibility.  That is why most men dread it."
• "A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry.  Hence University education."
• "The best brought-up children are those who have seen their parents as they are.  Hypocrisy is not the parent's first duty."
• "A learned man is an idler who kills time with study.  Beware of his false knowledge: it is more dangerous than ignorance."
• "No man fully capable of his own language ever masters another."
• "No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense an idiot."
• "Criminals do not die at the hands of the law.  They die at the hands of other men."
• "Murder and capital punishment are not opposites that cancel one another, but similars that breed their kind."
• "Titles distinguish the mediocre, embarrass the superior, and are disgraced by the inferior."
• "Property, said Proudhoun, is theft.  This is the only perfect truism that has been uttered on the subject."
• "What a man believes may be ascertained, not from his creed, but from the assumptions on which he habitually acts."
• "Greatness is only one of the sensations of littleness."
• "In a stupid nation the man of genius becomes a god: everybody worships him and nobody does his will."
• "Happiness and Beauty are by-products.  Folly is the direct pursuit of Happiness and Beauty."
• "In an ugly and unhappy world the richest man can purchase nothing but ugliness and unhappiness."
• "A modern gentleman is necessarily the enemy of his country.  Even in war he does not fight to defend it, but to prevent his power of preying on it from passing to a foreigner."
• "Moderation is never applauded for its own sake."
• "The unconscious self it the real genius.  Your breathing goes wrong the moment your conscious self meddles with it."
• "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself.  Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man."
• "The man who listens to Reason is lost: Reason enslaves all whose minds are not strong enough to master her."
• "Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience."
• "Hell is paved with good intentions, not bad ones.  All men mean well."
• "Mutiny Acts are needed only by officers who command without authority.  Divine right needs no whip."
• "No man dares say so much what he thinks as to appear to himself an extremist."  (Goodness, isn't that the truth!)
• "Take care to get what you like or you will be forced to like what you get."
• "Do not mistake your objection to defeat for an objection to fighting, your objection to being a slave for an objection to slavery, your objection to not being rich as your neighbor for an objection to poverty.  The cowardly, insubordinate, and the envious share your objections." 
• "America has no Star Chamber, and no feudal barons. But it has Trusts; and it has millionaires whose factories, fenced in by live electric wires and defended by Pinkerton retainers with magazine rifles, would have made a Radical of Reginald Front de Boeuf. Would Washington or Franklin have lifted a finger in the cause of American Independence if they had foreseen its reality?" (Good question).
• "When we learn to sing that Britons never will be masters we shall make an end to slavery." (Again, that goes for Americans too!)