Garry Wills
Garry Wills
Garry Wills is a prolific Pulitzer Prize–winning American author, journalist, and historian, specializing in American history, politics, and religion, especially the history of the Catholic Church...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth22 May 1934
CountryUnited States of America
hate government people
It's not healthy for a society if the people hate their own government.
government self essence
Accountability is the essence of democracy. If people do not know what their government is doing, they cannot be truly self-governing. The national security state assumes the government secrets are too important to be shared, that only those in the know can see classified information, that only the president has all the facts, that we must simply trust that our rulers of acting in our interest.
I'm hardly macho. I present myself as very unnoticeable.
far
I don't get far enough into a boring book to hate it.
car plays
I would rather listen to plays in the car than read them.
belonged fully
I have been an outsider in journalism and in the academy, because I never fully belonged to any of them.
subject
I don't really write for an audience. I just write what the subject seems to me to require.
against fond life priests respect time tried
I have nothing against priests. In fact, I tried for a time to be one... It should be clear, then, that I respect, and am often fond of, the many priests in my life.
abstract breathed catholics contrast converts doctrine line toe
There's an interesting contrast between born Catholics and converts. Converts are often much more rule-directed. Catholicism isn't something that they breathed in from their childhood, so they think that if you don't toe the line on abstract doctrine you can't be part of the Church.
leadership goal support
The leader is one who mobilizes others toward a goal shared by leaders and followers. ... Leaders, followers and goals make up the three equally necessary supports for leadership.
goal common common-goal
Leadership - mobilization toward a common goal.
war what-if danger
There is a particular danger with a war that God commands. What if God should lose?
military politics arms
To "bear arms" is, in itself, a military term. One does not bear arms against a rabbit.
leadership goal followers
The leader is one who mobilizes others toward a goal shared by leader and followers.