I.B. George Quotes
It costs nothing to ask wise advice from a good friend.
Who ordained that a few should have the land of Britain as a perquisite, who made 10,000 people owners of the soil and the rest of us trespassers in the land of our birth?
Why should I limit myself to only one woman when I can have as many women as I want?
Freedom and the power to choose should not be the privilege of wealth. They are the birthright of every American.
Many people flounder about in life because they do not have a purpose, an objective toward which to work.
He can't kick with his left foot, he can't head a ball, he can't tackle and he doesn't score many goals. Apart from that he's all right.
Life is sacred? Who said so? God? Hey, if you read history, you realize that God is one of the leading causes of death.
If a painting can be forged well enough to fool experts, why is the original so valuable?
People think life is real complicated. Actually, there's nothing to it. Once you leave out all the bullshit they teach you in school, life gets really simple.
There's only one way for a professional soldier to die. That's from the last bullet of the last battle of the last war.
Don’t you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make thoughtcrime literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it.
Was there ever such thing as great Shakespeare? Only one must not say so! But what think you — what — was there not sad stuff?
An idea which can be used only once is a trick. If one can use it more than once it becomes a method.
If there is a problem you can't solve, then there is an easier problem you can't solve: find it.
Man has too long forgotten that the earth was given to him for usufruct alone, not for consumption, still less for profligate waste.
Man is everywhere a disturbing agent. Wherever he plants his foot, the harmonies of nature are turned to discords.
My success wasn't based on how I could push down everybody that was around me. My success was based on how much I could push everybody up.
All our afflictions, all our temptations are to make heaven more desirable, and earth more loathsome.
To call war the soil of courage and virtue is like calling debauchery the soil of love.
So far as I am acquainted with the principles and doctrines of Freemasonry, I conceive it to be founded in benevolence and to be exercised only for the good of mankind.
Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.
It is not patriotic to commit young Americans to war unless our national security clearly requires it.
The 'Cheetah Generation' refers to the new and angry generation of young African graduates and professionals, who look at African issues and problems from a totally different and unique perspective.
All censorships exist to prevent anyone from challenging current conceptions and existing institutions.
The great secret...is not having bad manners or good manners...but having the same manner for all human souls.
Religion has actually convinced people that there's an invisible man living in the sky.
Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words.
Neither let us be slandered from our duty by false accusations against us, nor frightened from it by menaces of destruction to the Government nor of dungeons to ourselves.
There's nothing wrong with making love with the light on. Just make sure the car door is closed.
I don't worry about getting old. I'm old already. Only young people worry about getting old.
I must be getting absent-minded. Whenever I complain that things aren't what they used to be, I always forget to include myself.