Quotes & Jokes by George Carlin / page 18
It turned out I was pretty good in science. But again, because of the small budget, in science class we couldn't afford to do experiments in order to prove theories. We just believed everything. Actually, I think that class was called Religion. Religion class was always an easy class. All you had to do was suspend the logic and reasoning you were being taught in all the other classes.
Because we were a poor area, the school had a small budget and was unable to teach the second half of the alphabet.
I never eat sushi. I have trouble eating things that are merely unconscious.
If churches want to play the game of politics, let them pay admission like everyone else.
Conservatives want live babies so they can train them to be dead soldiers.
So I do have this ambivalence. Obviously I'm against militaries, because of what militaries do. In many ways though, the air force was unmilitary-like. They dropped bombs on people, but... they had a golf course.
If everything that ever lived is dead, and everything that's alive is gonna die, where does the sacred part come in?
My mother would say, "Why are you always playing alone?" And I would say, "I'm not playing, Ma. I'm fucking serious!"
No matter how you care to define it, I do not identify with the local group. Planet, species, race, nation, state, religion, party, union, club, association, neighborhood improvement committee; I have no interest in any of it. I love and treasure individuals as I meet them, I loathe and despise the groups they identify with and belong to.