George Carlin Quotes About Environment

Quotes about: Environment

• The real reason that we can’t have the Ten Commandments in a courthouse: You cannot post “Thou shalt not steal,” “Thou shalt not commit adultery,” and “Thou shalt not lie” in a building full of lawyers, judges, and politicians. It creates a hostile work environment.

  George Carlin

  Philosophy, Real, Lying
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  Oh Beautiful for smoggy skies, insecticided grain,
  For strip-mined mountain's majesty above the asphalt plain.
  America, America, man sheds his waste on thee,
  And hides the pines with billboard signs, from sea to oily sea.

  George Carlin

  Beautiful, Song, Nature

  "Class Clown". Comedy album by George Carlin, 1972.

• There are two types of people: One strives to control his environment, the other strives not to let his environment control him. I like to control my environment.

  George Carlin

  Two, People, Environment

  "Read Playboy ... for the Interviews" by Max Linsky, www.slate.com. November 26, 2012.

• My books and records are arranged according to subject, and within each subject, they're alphabetical by author or artist. The music tapes are alphabetical and the performance tapes are in chronological order.I like to control my environment, because I feel if I have my physical space in order, then I'm free to dream.

  George Carlin

  Dream, Book, Artist

  Source: reprints.longform.org

• I like to control my environment, because I feel if I have my physical space in order, then I'm free to dream. So there is some compulsion involved. But the dividend I get is the freedom to be totally disorderly in my dreamworld.

  George Carlin

  Dream, Order, Space

  Interview with Sam Merrill, reprints.longform.org. January 1982.

• I don't see much of a future for this planet. I think it's a cursed planet. The boundaries we've drawn between nations and the profit motive - those two factors have, in my opinion, brought us to the point where almost nothing can stop the utter destruction of the environment and all our earthly life-support systems.

  George Carlin

  Thinking, Two, Support Systems

  Interview with Sam Merrill, reprints.longform.org. January 1982.

• There are two types of people: One strives to control his environment, the other strives not to let his environment control him. I like to control my environment, because I feel if I have my physical space in order, then I'm free to dream.

  George Carlin

  Dream, Order, Two

  Source: reprints.longform.org

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