W. L. George Quotes

The more rational an institution is the less it suffers by making concessions to others.

The tide of evolution carries everything before it, thoughts no less than bodies, and persons no less than nations.

What renders man an imaginative and moral being is that in society he gives new aims to his life which could not have existed in solitude : the aims of friendship , religion , science , and art .

Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other friendships of the same intimacy.

Sometimes we have to change the truth in order to remember it.

It is a great advantage for a system of philosophy to be substantially true.

The Fates, like an absent-minded printer, seldom allow a single line to stand perfect and unmarred.

The irrational in the human has something about it altogether repulsive and terrible, as we see in the maniac, the miser, the drunkard or the ape.

Religions are the great fairy tales of conscience.

Scientific achievements seem evanescent, because the very progress of science causes their supersedure; yet some of them are of so fundamental a nature that they are immortal in a deeper way.

Goodbye. I am leaving because I am bored.

I think kindness is a sort of gateway virtue - having that simple aspiration can get you into deep water very quickly - in a good way.

Goodbye. I'm leaving because I'm bored.

Success makes opportunities and so many of those "opportunities" are actually exemptions - from hardship, from unfriendliness, from struggle.

Ballet is not technique, not a way of doing things, but a means of expression that comes perhaps more closely to the inner language of man than any other.

There's a lot of bad isms floating around this world, but one of the worst is commercialism.

It is sort of a disease when you consider yourself some kind of god, the creator of everything, but I feel comfortable about it now since I began to live it out.

The world order needs a major overhaul.

I rely a great deal on animal instincts.

It is credit that matters, not money (in other words, monetarism is a false ideology).

I think there's a lot of merit in an international economy and global markets, but they're not sufficient because markets don't look after social needs.

As a society we can't live without moral considerations. We do have to protect the public good. And markets are not designed to do that, so we need a political process.

You need a government that believes in government. It also believes in markets and wants to give markets the best, the greatest opportunity, but is trying to govern well.

The pro-Israel lobby has been remarkably successful in suppressing criticism. Politicians challenge it at their peril because of the lobby's ability to influence political contributions.

Of course, speculation will always make a crisis worse. If there is a weak point, it will expose it.

This crisis has the potential to be a lot worse than Lehman Brothers.

The ultimate asset bubble is gold.

I am dead set against free agency. It can ruin baseball.

To be a European is to try to negotiate morally, intellectually and existentially the opposing statements and praxis of the city of Socrates and the city of Isaiah.

To shoot a man because one disagrees with his interpretation of Darwin or Hegel is a sinister tribute to the supremacy of ideas in human affairs -- but a tribute nevertheless.

The journalistic vision sharpens to the point of maximum impact every event, every individual and social configuration; but the honing is uniform.

More and more lower-middle-income families either live their lives in debt or leave the city altogether. The boom is strictly at the penthouse level.

I do not believe that loyalty should demand defending behavior that I find abhorrent.

The Clinton paradox: How could a president so intelligent, so compassionate, so public-spirited and so conscious of his place in history act in such a stupid, selfish and self-destructive manner?

Well, I did say we'll put it out and we'll put it out when we can. But I don't know what we can put out or when we can put it out.

The cool, grey city of love.

I see myself capable of arrogance and brutality... That's a fierce thing, to discover within yourself that which you despise the most in others.

I will embrace the first opportunity to get to California and it is altogether probable that when once there I shall never again leave it.

If the provisions of the Constitution be not upheld when they pinch as well as when they comfort, they may as well be abandoned.

A nuisance may be merely a right thing in the wrong place - like a pig in the parlor instead of the barnyard.

We must remind ourselves that an assault on any one of our liberties and freedoms is an assault on all.

My memories of camp - I was four years old to eight years old - they're fond memories.

My parents taught me what life is about, so I grew up the type they warned me about.

I make a rich woman beg, I'll make a good woman steal. I'll make an old woman blush, and make a young woman squeal.

Show the reader what the character thinks about, and then the reader will think about it too.

You cannot write well without data.

The Red Sox are a religion. Every year we re-enact the agony and the temptation in the Garden. Baseball child's play? Hell, up here in Boston it's a passion play.

Happiness is only the cart; love is the horse

A British declaration be taken against Martinez for 'capturing and robbing us.

The truth is that most mission work is carried out where the church already exists Only small percentages are working where the church is non-existent.