All this struggling and striving to make the world better is a great mistake. Not that it's wrong to try to improve the world if you know how but simply because struggling and striving are the worst possible ways to go about doing anything! George Bernard Shaw More Quotes by George Bernard Shaw More Quotes From George Bernard Shaw The savage bows down to idols of wood and stone, the civilized man to idols of flesh and blood George Bernard Shaw idols men blood As an old soldier, I admit the cowardice: it's as universal as seasickness, and matters just as little. George Bernard Shaw soldier justice littles With the single exception of Homer, there is no eminent writer, not even Sir Walter Scott, whom I can despise so entirely as I despise Shakespeare when I measure my mind against his. . . . It would positively be a relief to me to dig him up and throw stones at him. George Bernard Shaw relief stones mind He said that private practice in medicine ought to be put down by law. When I asked him why, he said that private doctors were ignorant licensed murders. George Bernard Shaw doctors practice law He who has nothing to assert has no style and can have none: he who has something to assert will go as far in power of style as its momentousness and his conviction will carry him George Bernard Shaw conviction style power The trouble with the media is that it seems unable to distinguish between the end of the world and a bicycle accident. George Bernard Shaw media truth knowledge Imprisonment, as it exists today, is a worse crime than any of those committed by its victims. George Bernard Shaw crime society today If you do not say a thing in an irritating way, you may as well not say it at all because people will not trouble themselves about anything that does not trouble them. George Bernard Shaw fear doe people When asked which dog wins, he reflected for a moment and replied, "The one I feed the most." George Bernard Shaw dog winning native-american No Englishman is ever fairly beaten George Bernard Shaw englishmen beaten inspiration A moderately honest man with a moderately faithful wife, moderate drinkers both, in a moderately healthy house: that is the true middle class unit. George Bernard Shaw wife class men God has given us a world that nothing but our own folly keeps from being a paradise. George Bernard Shaw paradise given world Don't waste time collecting other people's autographs; rather devote it to making your own autograph worth collecting. George Bernard Shaw wasting-time waste people It was from Handel that I learned that style consists in force of assertion. George Bernard Shaw handel style force Let a short Act of Parliament be passed, placing all street musicians outside the protection of the law, so that any citizen George Bernard Shaw music humor funny I hate performers who debase great works of art; I long for their annihilation. George Bernard Shaw hate long art The great danger of conversion in all ages has been that when the religion of the high mind is offered to the lower mind, George Bernard Shaw understanding mind feelings No community has ever yet passed beyond the initial phases in which its pugnacity and fanaticism enabled it to found a nation, and its cupidity to establish and develop a commercial civilization. George Bernard Shaw phases community civilization The vilest abortionist is he who attempts to mould a child's character. George Bernard Shaw rebellious character children Assasination on the scaffold is the worst form of assasination, because there it is invested with the approval of society. George Bernard Shaw rebellious form approval