Gadflies Quotes

I am that gadfly which God has attached to the state, and all day long and in all places am always fastening upon you, arousing and persuading and reproaching you.

Errors do not cease to be errors simply because they're ratified into law.

I'm a chameleon, so changeable. I see myself as a gadfly and a questioner.

I am an artist you know ... it is my right to be odd.

Make your lives a masterpiece, you only get one canvas.

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.