I.B. George Quotes

The Brotherhood cannot be wiped out because it is not an organization in the ordinary sense. Nothing holds it together except an idea which is indestructible.

While we ourselves are the living graves of murdered beasts, how can we expect any ideal conditions on this earth?

My life is too short, and God’s work is too great for me to think of making a home for myself in this world.

From the point of view of the Low, no historic change has ever meant much more than a change in the name of their masters.

The most distinguished persons become more revolutionary as they grow older.

Animals are such agreeable friends―they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.

My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother. I attribute my success in life to the moral, intellectual and physical education I received from her.

All true tea lovers not only like their tea strong, but like it a little stronger with each year that passes — a fact which is recognized in the extra ration issued to old-age pensioners.

in our age there is no such thing as " keeping out of politics " all issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and .

The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.

[Man] progresses in all things by resolutely making a fool of himself.

Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.

He has got no good red blood in his body, " said Sir James."No. Somebody put a drop under a magnifying glass, and it was all semicolons and parentheses, " said Mrs. Cadwallader.

It was one of those dangerous moments when speech is at once sincere and deceptive, when feeling, rising high above its average depth, leaves flood-marks which are never reached again.

TWO AND TWO MAKES FIVE

When the white man turns tyrant, it is his own freedom that he destroys.

Cruelty would be delicious if one could only find some sort of cruelty that didn’t really hurt.

No emotion was pure, because everything was mixed up with fear and hatred.

And yet the rage that one felt was an abstract, undirected emotion which could be switched from one object to another like the flame of a blowlamp.

How can she? She's incapable of understanding anything. Besides, do any of us understand what we are doing? If we did, would we ever do it?

There were only four dissentients, the three dogs and the cat, who was afterwards discovered to have voted on both sides.

You don't stop laughing when you grow old, you grow old when you stop laughing.

The military was providing him (George H.W. Bush) with an education that was not available at Andover or Yale.

How we lavish our money and worship on Shakespeare without in the least knowing why!

But let the wise be warned against too great readiness at explanation: it multiplies the sources of mistake, lengthening the sum for reckoners sure to go wrong.

To be a writer, you must write. To be a published writer you must finish what you write and then get what you've written in front of the outside world.

You think, because you have a purpose, Nature must have one. You might as well expect it to have fingers and toes because you do.

When you do the common things in an uncommon way, you'll command the attention of the world.

It is easy-terribly easy-to shake a man's faith in himself. To take advantage of that to to break a man's spirit is Devil's work.

My dear: in this world there is always danger for those who are afraid of it.

Anyone who has used that comforting phrase 'a nice cup of tea' invariably means Indian tea.

Loyalty in a critic is corruption.

It’s the one thing they can’t do. They can make you say anything – anything – but they can’t make you believe it. They can’t get inside you.

She had forgotten his faults as we forgetthe sorrows of our departed childhood.

What can promote innocent mirth, and I may say virtue, more than a good riddle?

If human equality is to be for ever averted — if the High, as we have called them, are to keep their places permanently — then the prevailing mental condition must be controlled insanity.

To think, to think, even with a split second left - to think was the only hope.

Mortals are easily tempted to pinch the life out of their neighbor's buzzing glory, and think that such killing is no murder.

There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire: it is hardly a passion, but a blight bred in the cloudy, damp despondency of uneasy egoism.

Keep true. Never be ashamed of doing right. Decide what you think is right and stick to it.

In poor Rosamond’s mind there was not room enough for luxuries to look small in.

One must be poor to know the luxury of giving.

We sleep peaceably in our beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on our behalf"--Opening to "My Father's Son, " attributed to George Orwell

Anything that hinted at corruption always filled him with a wild hope

Some donkeys have amazing luck.

A man's interest in the world is only the overflow from his interest in himself.

Nationalism is not to be confused with patriotism.

Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.

It is unquestionably true that almost any English intellectual would feel more ashamed of standing to attention during 'God save the King' than of stealing from a poor box

Don't you enjoy being alive? Don't you like feeling: This is me, this is my hand, this is my leg, I'm real, I'm solid, I'm alive! Don't you like this?