I.B. George Quotes
Development which has no regard for whom or what it harms is not development. It is the opposite of progress, damaging the Earth's capacity to support us and the rest of its living systems.
Thinking like ethical people, dressing like ethical people, decorating our homes like ethical people makes not a damn of difference unless we also behave like ethical people.
Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape from.
Experience teaches us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is to dislodge them after they have got possession.
Honesty may be the best policy, but it's important to remember that apparently, by elimination, dishonesty is the second-best policy.
It is much easier to put existing resources to better use, than to develop resources where they do not exist.
Language can only deal meaningfully with a special, restricted segment of reality. The rest, and it is presumably the much larger part, is silence.
Summer is the time for squabbles. In winter, we must protect one another, keep each other warm, share our strengths.
Pioneering is never done in front of cheerleaders urging on a roaring grandstand of popular approval.
Just because I'm showing somebody being disemboweled doesn't mean that I have to get heavy and put a message behind it.
Nearly 60% of Americans who regularly attend Christian church say there is no such thing as the Holy Spirit—they say the Holy Spirit is just a symbol of God’s power or presence or purity.
No, there are some location shoots in Vegas, maybe four trips a year. It's shot in Santa Clarita, CA.
In literature the ambition of the novice is to acquire the literary language; the struggle of the adept is to get rid of it.
Very little changed fundamentally, except that the proud German soldier had turned into a defeated bundle of misery and the great German army had disintegrated.
The ideal artist is he who knows everything, feels everything, experiences everything, and retains his experience in a spirit of wonder and feeds upon it with creative lust.
Football isn't necessarily won by the best players. It's won by the team with the best attitude.
The less one remembers about the day before, the more the new day will be unfettered by triviality.
It's all that the young can do for the old, to shock them and keep them up to date.
My tombstone? I'm thinking something along the lines of, 'Geez, he was just here a minute ago.'
A true artist will let his wife starve, his children go barefoot, his mother drudge for his living at seventy, sooner than work at anything but his art.
A miracle is an event which creates faith. That is the purpose and nature of miracles. Frauds deceive. An event which creates faith does not deceive: therefore it is not a fraud, but a miracle.
The right to know is like the right to live. It is fundamental and unconditional in its assumption that knowledge, like life, is a desirable thing.
It is unhappily true that much insincere Literature and Art, executed solely with a view to effect, does succeed by deceiving the public.
Dusting is a good example of the futility of trying to put things right. As soon as you dust, the fact of your next dusting has already been established.
When I hear a person talking about political solutions, I know I am not listening to a serious person.
During the engagement I tried to throw a strong force through the canon, but I was obliged to use it elsewhere before it had gotten to the supposed location of the village.
