George Will
George Will
George Frederick Willis an American newspaper columnist and political commentator. He is a Pulitzer Prize–winner known for his conservative commentary on politics. In 1986, The Wall Street Journal called him "perhaps the most powerful journalist in America," in a league with Walter Lippmann...
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth4 May 1941
men weight-loss literature
I'm fat, but I'm thin inside... there's a thin man inside every fat man.
anger practice society
Society has always seemed to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice.
ideas new-day teeth
The idea really came to me the day I got my new false teeth.
fear war atheism
War is war. The only good human being is a dead one.
leadership courage empowering-others
When it comes to the pinch, human beings are heroic.
rebel
You're only a rebel from the waist downwards,' he told her.
truth intelligent political
The Catholic and the Communist are alike in assuming that an opponent cannot be both honest and intelligent.
envy suffering tragedy
Envy is a horrible thing. It is unlike all other kinds of suffering in that there is no disguising it, no elevating it into tragedy. It is more than merely painful, it is disgusting.
ideas world impossible
Pessimism is reactionary because it makes the very idea of improving the world impossible.
religious spring war
The energy that actually shapes the world springs from emotions - racial pride, leader-worship, religious belief, love of war - which liberal intellectuals mechanically write off as anachronisms, and which they have usually destroyed so completely in themselves as to have lost all power of action.
common-sense common heresy
The heresy of heresies was common sense.
running military believe
We believe half-instinctively that evil always defeats itself in the long run. Pacifism is founded largely on this belief. Don't resist evil, and it will somehow destroy itself. But why should it? What evidence is there that it does... unless conquered from the outside by military force?
war ignorance past
A hierarchical society is only possible on the basis of poverty and ignorance, this new version is the past and no different past can ever have existed. In principle the war effort is always planned to keep society on the brink of starvation. The war is waged by the ruling group against its own subjects and its object is not the victory over either Eurasia or East Asia but to keep the very structure of society intact.
I understand HOW. I do not understand WHY