I.B. George Quotes

But the thought of being a lunatic did not greatly trouble him the horror was that he might also be wrong.

There is always danger for those who are afraid.

The old civilizations claimed that they were founded on love or justice. Ours is founded upon hatred. In our world there will be no emotions except fear, rage, triumph, and self-abasement.

There are occasions when it pays better to fight and be beaten than not to fight at all.

A dull, decent people, cherishing and fortifying their dullness behind a quarter of a million bayonets.

In trench warfare five things are important: firewood, food, tobacco, candles, and the enemy. In winter on the Zaragoza front they were important in that order, with the enemy a bad last

Hitherto, the rights and wrongs had seemed so beautifully simple.

When it is necessary they can be prodded into frenzies of fear and hatred, but when left to themselves they are capable of forgetting for long periods that the war is happening.

If freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.

To die hating them, that was freedom

In some company it’s perfectly all right to prick your finger, but very bad form to finger your prick.

On the other hand, she was disproportionately indulgent towards the failings of men, and was often heard to say that these were natural.

Patriotism is, fundamentally, a conviction that a particular country is the best in the world because you were born in it....

We spent time on Burma and the need for the military regime there to understand that they shouldn't fear the voices of people. And yet they do.

They want the federal government controlling Social Security like it's some kind of federal program.

In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of politics.' All issues are political issues....

Politics is downstream from culture and not the other way around.

For every fatal shooting, there were roughly three non-fatal shootings. And, folks, this is unacceptable in America.

He is fiddling while Rome is burning, and, unlike the enormous majority of people who do this, fiddling with his face toward the flames.

Bullshit is the glue that binds us as a nation.

and then the chosen lie would pass into the permanent records and become truth

It is a woman's business to get married as soon as possible, and a man'sto keep unmarried as long as he can.

Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.

That is her style of beauty.

She's beautiful, ' he murmured.'She's a metre across the hips, easily, ' said Julia.'That is her style of beauty, ' said Winston.

I'll be long gone before some smart person ever figures out what happened inside this Oval Office."(Washington DC, 12 May, 2008)

If Art does not enlarge men’s sympathies, it does nothing morally.

It would be narrowness to suppose that an artist can only care for the impressions of those who know the methods of his art as well as feel its effects. Art works for all whom it can touch.

Poverty is spiritual halitosis.

Common sense is instinct. Enough of it is genius.

shot through the heart, and you're to blame! you give love, a bad name.

If all records told the same tale—then the lie passed into history and became truth.

A great nation does not hide its history. It faces its flaws and corrects them.

Many people genuinely do not wish to be saints, and it is possible that some who achieve or aspire to sainthood have never had much temptation to be human beings.

I want to be thoroughly used up when I die for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake.

[H]e is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature.

Give me loveGive me loveGive me peace on earthGive me lightGive me lifeKeep me free from birthGive me hopeHelp me cope, with this heavy loadTrying to, touch and reach you with, heart and soul

In this place you could not feel anything, except pain and the foreknowledge of pain.

I am" is reportedly the shortest sentence in the English language. Could it be that "I do" is the longest sentence?

But a good wife—a good unworldly woman—may really help a man, and keep him more independent.

Hell is full of musical amateurs: music is the brandy of the damned. May not one lost soul be permitted to abstain?

I'm sitting here doing nothing but ageing while my guitar gently weeps

It’s clearly a budget. It’s got lots of numbers in it.

Lack of money is the root of all evil.

It's good to have money and the things that money can buy, but it's good, too, to check up once in a while and make sure that you haven't lost the things that money can't buy.

Money, money, all is money! Could you write even a penny novelette without money to put heart into you? Invention, energy, wit, style, charm--they've all got to be paid for in hard cash.

For money buys all virtues. Money suffereth long and is kid, is not puffed up, doth not behave unseemly, seeketh not her own

At the time I could not see beyond the moral dilemma that is presented to the weak in a world governed by the strong: Break the rules, or perish.

Remember that the bad days are not forever, and the trouble which seems so terrible at last.

Passion is of the nature of seed, and finds nourishment within, tending to a predominance which determines all currents towards itself, and makes the whole life its tributary.