I.B. George Quotes

But it was all right, everything was all right, the struggle was finished. He had won the victory over himself. He loved Big Brother.

Progress and reaction have both turned out to be swindles. Seemingly, there is nothing left but quietism - robbing reality of its terrors by simply submitting to it.

To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others.

We do not merely destroy our enemies; we change them.

Dickens is one of those authors who are well worth stealing.

Political chaos is connected with the decay of language... one can probably bring about some improvement by starting at the verbal end.

The pleasures of spring are available to everybody and cost nothing.

Imperialism as he [Kipling] sees it is a sort of forcible evangelising.

Thoughtcrime was not a thing that could be concealed forever. You might dodge successfully for a while, even for years, but sooner or later they were bound to get you.

I'm fat, but I'm thin inside. Has it ever struck you that there's a thin man inside every fat man, just as they say there's a statue inside every block of stone?

Power is not a means; it is an end.

There is no such thing as a naval dictatorship.

He was alone. The past was dead, the future was unimaginable.

International football is the continuation of war by other means.

Clover was a stout motherly mare approaching middle life, who had never quite got her figure back after her fourth foal.

Surely, comrades, you don't want Jones back?

...the consciousness of being at war, and therefore in danger, makes the handing-over of all power to a small caste seem the natural, unavoidable condition of survival.

I want to see genuine talent rewarded.

Britain needs a simpler tax system which is simple to understand, where there are no loop-holes, where the very rich do not avoid tax by employing expensive accountants

Oh, you know. I am secretary of state. My trips aren't successful. I just talk to people.

Unfortunately, corruption is widespread in government agencies and public enterprises.

I am proud of being a Greek of the diaspora.

But, you know, all I can do is submit my budget and then make the case to the Legislature to act.

The moral equation strongly tells everyone who understands freedom, who understands morality, that Israel is engaging in a just war in defense of its people and its freedom.

From my point of view, there is a lot of joy in stage work.

At the base of it was the urge, if you wanted to play football, to knock someone down, that was what the sport was all about, the will to win closely linked with contact.

A GREAT discovery solves a great problem but there is a grain of discovery in any problem.

The principle is so perfectly general that no particular application of it is possible.

I have no doubt that we will be successful in harnessing the sun's energy... If sunbeams were weapons of war, we would have had solar energy centuries ago.

I feel like saying 'Damn the Law.'

If we get our salvation, we shall have to pass by him [Joseph Smith]; if we enter our glory, it will be through the authority he has received. We cannot get around him

There is no creature on earth half so terrifying as a truly just man.

I am surrounded by flatterers and fools. It can drive a man to madness,.. . Half of them don’t dare tell me the truth, and the other half can’t find it.

Anger was better than tears, better than grief, better than guilt.

No one who wears a crown is ever safe.

Man wants to be the king o' the rabbits, he best wear a pair o' floppy ears.

A crown should not sit easy on the head.

What is dead may never die, but rises again, stronger and harder.

A man who won't listen can't hear.

The man who never reads lives only one.

Light our fire and protect us from the dark, blah blah, light our way and keep us toasty warm, the night is dark and full of terrors, save us from the scary things, and blah blah blah some more.

Love is poison. A sweet poison, yes, but it will kill you all the same.

An attack on one is an attack on all.

In the end, trying to be perfect is the unconscious social effort to please ourselves by pleasing these others.

People Watch Luck Go by Them and They're Blind - They Never Reach out and Grab It.

Luck has a peculiar habit of favoring those who do not depend on it.

...good luck waits to come to that man who accepts opportunity.

It was apparent that no one could do for the scribe what the scribe had done for himself.

Accept the challenges so that you may feel the exhilaration of victory. Always do more than is required of you. If a man has done his best, what else is there?

Compared to war, all other forms of human endeavor shrink to insignificance. God help me, I do love it so.