I.B. George Quotes

If affirmative action means what I just described, what I'm for, then I'm for it.

I go to the chair of government with feelings not unlike those of a culprit who is going to the place of his execution.

Does Big Brother exist?" "Of course he exists. The Party exists. Big Brother is the embodiment of the Party." "Does he exist in the same way as I exist?" "You do not exist.

I wasted a lot of years working on my writing and very grandly saying, 'And now... My Novel!,' which would soon be reduced to a short story, then to a paragraph.

When something really bad is going on in a culture, the average guy doesn't see it. He can't. He's average and is surrounded by and immersed in the cant and discourse of the status quo.

There are very few things in my life that I can't have if I want them. So when I see something that I can't have, immediately I'm obsessed by it.

The fallacy is to believe that under a dictatorial government you can be free inside

In real life it is always the anvil that breaks the hammer.

The word Fascism has now no meaning except in so far as it signifies 'something not desirable.'

Right thinking will be rewarded, wrong thinking punished.

Everyone believes in the atrocities of the enemy and disbelieves in those of his own side, without ever bothering to examine the evidence.

It is a great bond to dislike the same things.

A dog will flatter you but you have to flatter the cat.

I asked many friends if Australian anti-intellectualism was still a living force and they all told me it was. If you are above average intelligence, hide this embarrassing fact.

A pessimist is a man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it.

Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.

If it's true that our species is alone in the universe, then I'd have to say the universe aimed rather low and settled for very little.

I'm not a teacher: only a fellow traveler of whom you asked the way. I pointed ahead - ahead of myself as well as you.

Four legs good, two legs bad.

Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.

As with the Christian religion, the worst advertisement for Socialism is its adherents.

Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.

But that intimacy of mutual embarrassment, in which each feels that the other is feeling something, having once existed, its effect is not to be done away with.

There is no sincerer love than the love of food.

The IQ and the life expectancy of the average American recently passed each other in opposite directions.

What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn't much better than tedious disease.

The future has a way of arriving unannounced.

Let no man imagine that he has no influence. Whoever he may be, and wherever he may be placed, the man who thinks becomes a light and a power.

No, the religion of Jesus is a social religion.

Perfect simplicity is unconsciously audacious.

Only the dead have seen the end of the war.

Love is about mutual respect, apart from attraction.

There is no greater treasure than a husband who models godliness before his wife and children on a daily basis.

Each day can be one of triumph if you keep up your interests.

Spirituality: the last refuge of a failed human. Just another way of distracting yourself from who you really are.

My problem is that I have been persecuted by an integer.

If you can't beat them, arrange to have them beaten.

Hard work is for people short on talent.

Bullshit is truly the American soundtrack.

Vicodin and vodka the breakfast of champion's.

The definition of success is total preparation.

They [the Reagan Administration] want to put street criminals in jail to make life safer for the business criminals. They're against street crime, providing that street isn't Wall Street.

We spend the early years feeding our brains with information and the latter half trying not to think about it all.

The pointes for girls, I always say, have to be like an elephant's trunk; strong and yet flexible and soft.

I think in my own country, at the way we've seen through the ordination of women to the priesthood, which I'm delighted about, and that will move on to another level before very long.

I also survived circumcision, a barbaric practice designed to remind you as early as possible that your genitals are not your own.

Collaborate, don't dictate.

My opinion of a good zombie walk is to loll your head as if it's a little too heavy and the muscles have begun to atrophy.

An infatuated man is not only foolish, but wild.

The visionary who is serving God ceases to live for personal ambitions, but rather for God's ambitions.