I.B. George Quotes

One must choose between God and Man, and all "radicals" and "progressives", from the mildest liberal to the most extreme anarchist, have in effect chosen Man.

We have sunk so low it has become the obligation of every decent, thinking individual to re-state the obvious!

It is not possible for any thinking person to live in such a society as our own without wanting to change it.

The object of power is power.

Rich people are poor people with money.

Take away freedom of speech, and the creative faculties dry up.

History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.

Orthodoxy is the ability to say two and two make five when faith requires it.

A human being is primarily a bag for putting food into.

Autobiography is only to be trusted when it reveals something disgraceful.

We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness.

What opinions the masses hold, or do not hold, is looked upon as a matter of indifference. They can be granted intellectual liberty becasue they have no intellect.

Never use a long word where a short one will do.

One of the effects of a safe and civilized life is an immense over sensitiveness which makes all the primary emotions somewhat disgusting.

Saints should always be judged guilty until they are proved innocent.

Money writes books, money sells them. Give me not righteousness, O Lord, give me money, only money.

His answer to every problem, every setback was “I will work harder!” —which he had adopted as his personal motto.

Advertising is the rattling of a stick inside a swill bucket.

The intellectual is different from the ordinary man, but only in certain sections of his personality, and even then not all the time.

Part of the reason for the ugliness of adults, in a child's eyes, is that the child is usually looking upwards, and few faces are at their best when seen from below.

What makes people angry and we are on the side of hard-working people who want to get on in life and they see how government is wasting their money.

The Conservative Party mustn't sound like the old man on the park bench who says things were better in 1985, or 1955, or 1855.

If they are too big to fail, make them smaller.

Terrorism is not a matter that can be left to law enforcement, with its deliberative process, built-in delays, and safeguards that may let the prisoner go free on procedural grounds.

Obama seems to want to do something to damage rich people.

The smaller the ball used in the sport, the better the book.

As happens with people who love a thing too much, it destroys them. Oscar Wilde said, 'You destroy the thing that you love.' It's the other way around. What you love destroys you.

My method to overcome a difficulty is to go round it.

Power resides only where men believe it resides. [...] A shadow on the wall, yet shadows can kill. And ofttimes a very small man can cast a very large shadow.

Bran thought about it. 'Can a man still be brave if he's afraid?' 'That is the only time a man can be brave,' his father told him.

You should grieve if a fictional character is killed. You should care.

Sorcery is the sauce fools spoon over failure to hide the flavor of their own incompetence.

The wildlings seemed to think Ygritte a great beauty because of her hair; red hair was rare among the free folk, and those who had it were said to be kissed by fire, which was supposed to be lucky.

And for the first time in hundreds of years, the night came alive with the music of dragons.

The years leech at a man's memories, even those he has vowed never to forget.

In order to grow we must be open to new ideas...new ways of doing things... new ways of thinking.

I found the road to wealth when I decided that a part of all I earned was mine to keep.

You can't fool me. There ain't no Sanity Clause!

Let's keep our boots polished, bayonets sharpened, and present a picture of force and strength to the Red Army. This is the only language they understand and respect.

The courageous man is the man who forces himself, in spite of his fear, to carry on.

Discipline must be a habit so ingrained that it is stronger than the excitement of battle.

This is a hell of a way to die.

Remember that the enemy is just as frightened as you are and probably more so. They are not supermen

Punctuation has its own philosophy, just as style does, although not as language does. Style is a good understanding of language, punctuation is a good understanding of style.

The truth is cruel, but it can be loved, and it makes free those who have loved it.

The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the older man who will not laugh is a fool.

Sanity is madness put to good use.

Nonsense is so good only because common sense is so limited.

The mass of mankind is divided into two classes, the Sancho Panza's who have a sense for reality, but no ideals, and the Don Quixote's with a sense for ideals, but mad.

Society is like the air, necessary to breathe but insufficient to live on.