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
fatigue
Winston was gelatinous with fatigue.
bones mute protest
the mute protest in your own bones
loss mysterious-things mysterious
It is a mysterious thing, the loss of faith—as mysterious as faith itself.
You were the dead; theirs was the future.
thinking floats ifs
If he thinks he floats off the floor, and if I simultaneously think I see him do it, then the thing happens.
long donkey long-time
Donkeys live a long time. None of you has ever seen a dead donkey.
strong voice profanity
The urge to shout filthy words at the top of his voice was as strong as ever.
real secret should
. . . it is a corrupting thing to live one's real life in secret. One should live with the stream of life, not against it.
men lasts 1984-movie
If you are a man, Winston, you are the last man.
thinking sanity
Sanity was statistical. It was merely a question of learning to think as they thought.
mistake hands people
Money has become the grand test of virtue. By this test beggars fail, and for this they are despised. If one could earn even ten pounds a week at begging, it would become a respectable profession immediately. A beggar, looked at realistically, is simply a businessman, getting his living, like other businessmen, in the way that comes to hand. He has not, more than most modem people, sold his honour; he has merely made the mistake of choosing a trade at which it is impossible to grow rich.
ideas together indestructible
Nothing holds it together except an idea which is indestructible.
loyalty men dying
They were governed by private loyalties which they did not question. What mattered were individual relationships, and a completely helpless gesture, an embrace, a tear, a word spoken to a dying man, could have value in itself
dying generations world
From the proletarians nothing is to be feared. Left to themselves, they will continue from generation to generation and from century to century, working, breeding, and dying, not only without any impulse to rebel, but without the power of grasping that the world could be other than it is.