George Carlin
George Carlin
George Denis Patrick Carlinwas an American stand-up comedian, actor, social critic and author. Carlin was noted for his black comedy and his thoughts on politics, the English language, psychology, religion, and various taboo subjects. Carlin and his "Seven dirty words" comedy routine were central to the 1978 U.S. Supreme Court case F.C.C. v. Pacifica Foundation, in which a 5–4 decision affirmed the government's power to regulate indecent material on the public airwaves...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionComedian
Date of Birth12 May 1937
CityNew York City, NY
CountryUnited States of America
Results like these [state of the earth] do not belong on the resumé of a supreme being.
Sometimes a little brain damage can help.
Next time you see someone sleeping, make believe you're in a science fiction movie. And whisper, 'The creature is regenerating itself.'
You know something I could really do without? The Space Shuttle. ... It's irresponsible. The last thing we should be doing is sending our grotesquely distorted DNA out into space.
We've learned how to make a living, but not a life. We've added years to life, not life to years.
Hallucinogens are a value changer...like it or not, it changes your values, it opens up windows (doors of perception.)
Even in a fake democracy, people ought to get what they want once in a while.
I hope no one asks me to show them the ropes; I have no idea where they are. Maybe I could pull some strings and find out.
An outsider longing to be on the inside is the same as the soloist longing to work in an ensemble. I get great satisfaction in being a part of the proper - for me - community. I'm uncomfortable with various social groupings and clusterings. But when I'm in the right group, doing the right thing, I get as much satisfaction out of that as anyone who does it all the time.
If you you think there is a solution, you're part of the problem.
A dog has no shame. If he can do it, you can watch.
... the important thing is to, first of all, question everything you read or hear or see or are told. Question it, and try to see the world for what it actually is, as opposed to what someone or some company or some organization or some government is trying to represent it as, or present it as, however they've mislabeled it or dressed it up or told you.
That invisible hand of Adam Smith's seems to offer an extended middle finger to an awful lot of people.
I kind of like it when a lot of people die, and on the other hand I always wonder how many unused frequent-flier miles they had.