I.B. George Quotes

Eternal vigilance is the price of knowledge.

Oaths are the fossils of piety.

The world is a perpetual caricature of itself; at every moment it is the mockery and the contradiction of what it is pretending to be.

Nietzsche was personally more philosophical than his philosophy. His talk about power, harshness, and superb immorality was the hobby of a harmless young scholar and constitutional invalid.

Well-bred instinct meets reason halfway

Intolerance is a form of egotism, and to condemn egotism intolerantly is to share it.

The theatre, for all its artifices, depicts life in a sense more truly than history, because the medium has a kindred movement to that of real life, though an artificial setting and form.

The mind of the Renaissance was not a pilgrim mind, but a sedentary city mind, like that of the ancients.

Life is short, very short, and what are we doing here if not trying to become more generous and loving?

One day we will all cherish the memory of having blacksmiths on every corner.

Political debate is more interested in manipulating the truth, than finding the truth.

There is always a divergence between our perception and what actually exists.

Taking this view, it is possible to see financial markets as a laboratory for testing hypotheses, albeit not strictly scientific ones. The truth is, successful investing is a kind of alchemy.

The laissez-faire argument relies on the same tacit appeal to perfection as does communism.

But why shouldn't I speak out? Don't you speak out in this country?

It was in the 1960s that I began the detailed study of public regulation.

Do you love me, do you wanna be my friend?

I went to a Catholic School, and underneath my school uniform, I wore a metal shirt.

Music is indivisible. The dualism of feeling and thinking must be resolved to a state of unity in which one thinks with the heart and feels with the brain.

Egotism is the art of seeing in yourself what others cannot see.

The characters are telling you the story. I'm not telling you the story, they're going to do it. If I do it right, you will get the whole story.

What You Lose on the Swings You Make Up on the Merry-Go-Round.

You teach a child to read, and he or her will be able to pass a literacy test.

We do not create terrorism by fighting the terrorists. We invite terrorism by ignoring them.

Like other forms of stealing, identity theft leaves the victim poor and feeling terribly violated.

We're not into nation-building. We're into justice.

For diplomacy to be effective, words must be credible - and no one can now doubt the word of America.

I glance at the headlines just to kind of get a flavor for what's moving. I rarely read the stories, and get briefed by people who are probably read the news themselves.

The politician who steals is worse than a thief. He is a fool. With all the grand opportunities around for the man with a political pull, there's no excuse for stealin' a cent.

All War Departments are now Defense Departments. This is all part of the doubletalk of our time. The aggressor is always on the other side.

Freemasonry is an order whose leading star is philanthropy and whose principles inculcate an unceasing devotion to the cause of virtue and morality.

It is an old adage that honesty is the best policy-this applies to public as well as private life-to States as well as individuals.

Unwilling am I, in the evening of a life nearly consumed in public cares, to quit a peaceful abode for an Ocean of difficulties

[T]here is no truth more thoroughly established, than that there exists . . . an indissoluble union between virtue and happiness.

My observation is that whenever one person is found adequate to the discharge of a duty... it is worse executed by two persons, and scarcely done at all if three or more are employed therein.

Education is understanding relationships.

The First Amendment...begins with the five loveliest words in the English language: 'Congress shall make no law'.

Whatever right the Second Amendment protects is not as important as it was 200 years ago... The government should deconstitutionalize the subject by repealing the embarrasing Amendment.

The business of America is not business. Neither is it war. The business of america is justice and securing the blessings of liberty.

Sports serve society by providing vivid examples of excellence.

It is no longer enough to be lusty. One must be a sexual gourmet.

Politics should share one purpose with religion: the steady emancipation of the individual through the education of his passions.

Happiness is speechless.

The test of civilization is the estimate of woman.

Charity is false, futile, and poisonous when offered as a substitute for justice.

The fundamental principle of human action, the law, that is to political economy what the law of gravitation is to physics is that men seek to gratify their desires with the least exertion

To be a writer you should read, write and talk to people, hear their knowledge, hear their problems. Be a good listener. The rest will come.

I hope his breath wasn't too bad for 'Bron.'

If there is going to be a Big Brother in the United States, it is going to be us. The FBI.

We cannot without becoming cats, perfectly understand the cat mind.