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77528b6 Why is it that one can't borrow from a rich friend and can from a half-starved relative? George Orwell
7e3fa5c One's got to change the system, or one changes nothing. George Orwell
003b8d8 I have the most evil memories of Spain, but I have very few bad memories of Spaniards. George Orwell
5617697 Human beings were behaving as human beings and not as cogs in the capitalist machine. George Orwell
12442dc Everyone always did miss everyone else in this war, whenever it was humanly possible to do so. George Orwell
af58c03 Men are only as good as their technical development allows them to be. George Orwell
5f5447e The outstanding, unmistakable mark of Dickens's writing is the unnecessary detail. George Orwell
5f19201 There are occasions when it pays better to fight and be beaten than not to fight at all. George Orwell
a37f649 The lady in the Rolls-Royce car is more damaging to morale than a fleet of Goring's bombing planes. George Orwell
2ec3406 Antisemitism, for instance, is simply not the doctrine of a grown-up person. George Orwell
dbc439e But it takes a war to make map-reading popular. George Orwell
1623491 E]ven stupidity is better than totalitarianism. George Orwell
76f8f63 Nationalism is power-hunger tempered by self-deception. George Orwell
b052184 Orthodoxy, of whatever colour, seems to demand a lifeless, imitative style. George Orwell
5130d60 You can't promote principled anti-corruption action without pissing off corrupt people. George P. Kent
380b14d The best of ideas is hurt by uncritical acceptance and thrives on critical examination. George Pólya
0e6cee7 Good approximations often lead to better ones. George Pólya
6369bdc Of all the bright cruel lies they tell you, the crudest is the one called love. George R. R. Martin
dadbb15 Art is not a democracy. People don't get to vote on how it ends. George R. R. Martin
1f8c8e1 Believe me, no one wants to finish this book more than me. George R. R. Martin
95069a0 Nobody is a villain in their own story. We're all the heroes of our own stories. George R. R. Martin
5475214 The slaves of socialism are slaves, but they are no one's property and therefore no one's loss. George Reisman
a029f51 Our cause is just . . . our country will be grateful" George Rogers Clark
0184ac4 I finished the Koran - a good book and interesting. George S. Patton
7e2eb2e I find that moral courage is the most valuable and most usually absent characteristic. George S. Patton
885c347 A pint of sweat will save a gallon of blood. George S. Patton
2ca3c55 If you put the letter "S" in front of Hitler, then you have my opinion of him. George S. Patton
4b9b23a Have taken Trier with two divisions. What do you want me to do? Give it back? George S. Patton
96dc059 Fatigue makes cowards of all of us. George S. Patton
b061ef5 My men can eat their belts, but my tanks have gotta have gas. George S. Patton
774eb76 Always do everything you ask of those you command. George S. Patton
1dd6ac7 Accept the challenges, so that you may feel the exhilaration of victory. George S. Patton
43afd23 Ever since I was a child I never wanted to be anything else but a soldier. George S. Patton IV
29182ab The Book of History is the Bible of Irony. George Saintsbury
0e50a48 Oratory is, after all, the prose literature of the savage. George Saintsbury
622b2b0 So, then, there abide these three, Aristotle, Longinus, and Coleridge. George Saintsbury
0722bb3 Historians may lie, but History cannot. George Saintsbury
ecc787d Majorities are generally wrong, if only in their reasons for being right. George Saintsbury
5e98e55 Everything] ideal has a natural basis and everything natural an ideal development. George Santayana
fcad957 The highest form of vanity is love of fame. George Santayana
84abd83 Every moment celebrates obsequies over the virtues of its predecessor. George Santayana
33f7349 To know how just a cause we have for grieving is already a consolation. George Santayana
8f1d058 The mind celebrates a little triumph whenever it can formulate a truth. George Santayana
a549bd7 Art like life should be free, since both are experimental. George Santayana