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
thinking guilt grit
Solomon's Proverbs, I think, have omitted to say, that as the sore palate findeth grit, so an uneasy consciousness heareth innuendos.
skepticism standstill
... scepticismcan never be thoroughly applied, else life would come to a standstill ...
rebellion defiance one-thing
... it is one thing to like defiance, and another thing to like its consequences.
suffering morality motive
... we are most of us brought up in the notion that the highest motive for not doing a wrong is something irrespective of the beings who would suffer the wrong.
selfish gentleman vices
... goodness is of a modest nature, easily discouraged, and when much elbowed in early life by unabashed vices, is apt to retire into extreme privacy, so that it is more easily believed in by those who construct a selfish old gentleman theoretically, than by those who form the narrower judgments based on his personal acquaintance.
majority argument jokes
... the majority of us scarcely see more distinctly the faultiness of our own conduct than the faultiness of our own arguments, orthe dulness [sic] of our own jokes.
ambition vision ease
... indefinite visions of ambition are weak against the ease of doing what is habitual or beguilingly agreeable.
distance men squares
... we all know the wag's definition of a philanthropist: a man whose charity increases directly as the square of the distance.
people charity way
I don't feel sure about doing good in any way now; everything seems like going on a mission to a people whose language I don't know.
imperfection painting insight
... the true seeing is within; and painting stares at you with an insistent imperfection.
money differences errors
Expenditure--like ugliness and errors--becomes a totally new thing when we attach our own personality to it, and measure it by that wide difference which is manifest (in our own sensations) between ourselves and others.
thinking mad people
What people do who go into politics I can't think; it drives me almost mad to see mismanagement over only a few hundred acres.
commitment waiting quality
Our sense of duty must often wait for some work which shall take the place of dilettanteism [sic] and make us feel that the quality of our action is not a matter of indifference.
art sky people
It is painful to be told that anything is very fine and not be able to feel that it is fine--something like being blind, while people talk of the sky.