#george

About these developments George Orwell, in Nineteen Eighty-Four, was quite wrong. He described a new kind of state and police tyranny, under which the freedom of speech has become a deadly danger, science and its applications have regressed, horses are again plowing untilled fields, food and even sex have become scarce and forbidden commodities: a new kind of totalitarian puritanism, in short. But the very opposite has been happening. The fields are plowed not by horses but by monstrous machines, and made artificially fertile through sometimes poisonous chemicals; supermarkets are awash with luxuries, oranges, chocolates; travel is hardly restricted while mass tourism desecrates and destroys more and more of the world; free speech is not at all endangered but means less and less. ↗

— John A. Lukacs

#george-orwell #orwell #prophecy #puritanism #food

George Liquor is really the richest character I have. I'm amazed there aren't 365 episodes about him on TV already. ↗

— John Kricfalusi

#already #amazed #character #episodes #george

It is my personal plan to assassinate by pistol either Richard Nixon or George Wallace. ↗

— Arthur Bremer

#either #george #nixon #personal #pistol

The Sunday School teacher talked too much in the way our grade school teacher used to when she told us about George Washington. Pleasant, pretty stories, but not true. ↗

— Frances Farmer

#george #george washington #grade #grade school #much

But we talk about issues, we talk about people, we talk about personalities. George is a very good reader of people, and he's very perceptive about people, and you know, that's fine. ↗

— Laura Bush

#fine #george #good #issues #know

We always get up about 5:30, and George gets up and goes in and gets the coffee and brings it to me, and that's been our ritual since we got married. And we read the newspapers in bed and drink coffee for about an hour probably, read our briefing papers. ↗

— Laura Bush

#always #bed #been #briefing #brings

I just liked stand-up comedy so much. I used to memorize Bill Cosby albums and other people's albums, George Carlin, Flip Wilson. ↗

— Drew Carey

#bill #carlin #comedy #cosby #flip

I am George Rogers Clark. You have just become a prisoner of the Commonwealth of Virginia. ↗

— George Rogers Clark

#become #clark #commonwealth #george #i

People are still asking me if I knew Star Wars was going to be that big of a hit. Yes, we all knew. The only one who didn't know was George. ↗

— Carrie Fisher

#big #george #going #hit #i

I hold with Henry George, that at the back of every great social evil will be found a great political wrong. ↗

— Alfred Russel Wallace

#every #evil #found #george #great