"[T]he most elaborate code of [law]... would still have left unspecified a hundred ways in which wreckers of Communism could have sidetracked it with… - George Bernard Shaw

Dans la vie, il y a deux catégories d’individus :
Ceux qui regardent le monde tel qu’il est et se demandent pourquoi.
Ceux qui imaginent le monde tel qu’il devrait être et qui se disent : pourquoi pas ?

This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; the being a force of nature instead of a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy. I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community and as long as I live it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can. I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake. Life is no “brief candle” to me. It is a sort of splendid torch, which I have got hold for the moment and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.

...a man of great common sense and good taste, meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.