Susan George (Susan Melody George) Quotes

What it missing, I think, is this notion of the common good.

Susan George

• Good
• Common
• Notion

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• I'm very obsessed with 'The Real Housewives' franchise. It's a bad obsession.

  

  Vanessa Marano
  • Real
  • Bad
  • Obsession

• I've lived in New York for a really long time.

  

  Famke Janssen
  • Time
  • Long
  • New York

• Islamism is an ideology that seeks to impose any version of Islam over society.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Society
  • Islam
  • Ideology

• Ireland was, of old, called the Isle of Saints because of the great number of holy ones of both sexes who flourished there in former ages or who, coming thence, propagated the faith amongst other nations.

  

  Sabine Baring-Gould
  • Great
  • Faith
  • Old

• I love ensemble work. I love making pieces and building things together.

  

  Uzo Aduba
  • Work
  • Things
  • Making

• Purity of personal life is the one indispensable condition for building up a sound education.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Life
  • Up
  • Education

• I am not afraid to go to jail.

  

  Ferdinand Marcos
  • Afraid
  • Jail

• I love mixing with comedians when I'm working with them, but when I'm not I don't feel the need to hang around with them.

  

  Jack Dee
  • Feel
  • Working
  • Mixing

• Music is the message of peace, and music only brings peace.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • Music
  • Peace
  • Only

• The sense of being a separate, egoic self begins with the astral, not with the physical, body. The soul is individualized spirit.

  

  Paramahansa Yogananda
  • Soul
  • Body
  • Self

• I rarely meet a politician that I don't like personally. They are generally well endowed with charm. Therein lies the danger.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Like
  • Lies
  • Danger

• I get recognized all the time, but not as Haley Bennett.

  

  Haley Bennett
  • Time
  • Get
  • Recognized

• The rule of the game was never assume that anybody, however honorable, would be able to stand up under torture. If Mr. X, who knew where I was, was caught for some reason, I should move.

  

  Abraham Pais
  • Up
  • Game
  • Stand

• I was attacked by a dog when I was a toddler, and my injuries were so bad, I spent quite a bit of my childhood in and out of hospital. Books were absolutely my salvation during those years.

  

  Kate Forsyth
  • Bad
  • Childhood
  • Dog

• There's just something about that cold rush that I know I hate and a lot of other swimmers hate.

  

  Natalie Coughlin
  • Hate
  • Know
  • Cold

• Coercion is the least efficient means of obtaining order.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin

• Khedron was content with the order of things as it was. True, he might upset that order from time to time-but only by a little. He was a critic, not a revolutionary. On the placidly flowing river of time, he wished only to make a few ripples; he shrank from diverting its course.

  

  Arthur C. Clarke
  • Time
  • True
  • River

• If you can market smut and toilet paper, you can market movies.

  

  Dawn Steel

• Poetry should surprise by a fine excess and not by singularity, it should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.

  

  John Keats
  • Poetry
  • Thoughts

• Ultimately, the power of the Airbnb platform is that it motivates guests to blend into communities, belong anywhere, and live like locals.

  

  Joe Gebbia
  • Live
  • Power

• What American people and what the markets want is a fair and level playing-field, where the rules are clearly elucidated, where the referees are competent, and where we know that the game is not rigged.

  

  James Chanos
  • People
  • American
  • Game

• People don't really assume that I'm Filipino. Of course, they're gonna think, 'Oh, are you some sort of Hispanic?' and you say, 'No, I'm actually not.' I get Korean or Chinese a lot.

  

  Jose Antonio Vargas
  • People
  • Chinese

• When the Goths are at the gates, forming study groups and praying for deliverance is not effective defense.

  

  G. Edward Griffin
  • Study
  • Defense
  • Groups

• What it missing, I think, is this notion of the common good.

  

  Susan George
  • Good
  • Common
  • Notion