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
doctrine persons instance
Antisemitism, for instance, is simply not the doctrine of a grown-up person.
animal law female
It was given out that the animals there practised cannibalism, tortured one another with red-hot horseshoes, and had their females in common. This was what came of rebelling against the laws of Nature, Frederick and Pilkington said.
writing style
By the time you have perfected any style of writing, you have always outgrown it.
loss differences profound
There is a geographical element in all belief-saying what seem profound truths in India have a way of seeming enormous platitudes in England, and vice versa . Perhaps the fundamental difference is that beneath a tropical sun individuality seems less distinct and the loss of it less important.
men obesity fats
A fat man is never so happy as when he is describing himself as "robust.
life-and-death alive want
One wants to live, of course, indeed one only stays alive by virtue of the fear of death.
people matter way
Most people who bother with the matter at all would admit that the English language is in a bad way, but it is generally assumed that we cannot by conscious action do anything about it.
imperialism kipling
Imperialism as he [Kipling] sees it is a sort of forcible evangelising.
dirty humor wish
A dirty joke is not, of course, a serious attack on morality, but it is a sort of mental rebellion, a momentary wish that things were otherwise.
gun mouths faces
When it comes to the pinch, human beings are heroic. Women face childbed and the scrubbing brush, revolutionaries keep their mouths shut in the torture chamber, battleships go down with their guns still firing when their decks are awash.
evil long people
The common people, on the whole, are still living in the world of absolute good and evil from which the intellectuals have long since escaped.
character class three
If you ask any ordinary reader which of Dickens's proletarian characters he can remember, the three he is almost certain to mention are Bill Sykes, Sam Weller and Mrs. Gamp. A burglar, a valet and a drunken midwife-not exactly a representative cross-section of the English working class.
mind duty resolute
A sahib has got to act like a sahib; he has got to appear resolute, to know his own mind and do definite things.
country socialist-countries years
In my opinion, nothing has contributed so much to the corruption of the original idea of socialism as the belief that Russia is a socialist country and that every act of its rulers must be excused, if not imitated. And so for the last ten years, I have been convinced that the destruction of the Soviet myth was essential if we wanted a revival of the socialist movement.