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
dog men differences
The commonest man, who has his ounce of sense and feeling, is conscious of the difference between a lovely, delicate woman and a coarse one. Even a dog feels a difference in her presence.
squirrels air delicacy
A fine lady is a squirrel-headed thing, with small airs and small notions; about as applicable to the business of life as a pair of tweezers to the clearing of a forest.
culture opinion obstacles
The floods of nonsense printed in the form of critical opinions seem to me a chief curse of the times, a chief obstacle to true culture.
enemy harder niceties
Conscience is harder than our enemies, Knows more, accuses with more nicety.
wine vinegar sun
Wine and the sun will make vinegar without any shouting to help them.
leadership command
He who rules must fully humor as much as he commands.
fool idiot happens
A fool or idiot is one who expects things to happen that never can happen.
belief
Better a false belief than no belief at all.
sky childhood sorrow
My childhood was full of deep sorrows - colic, whooping-cough, dread of ghosts, hell, Satan, and a Deity in the sky who was angry when I ate too much plumcake.
religious powerful growth
Fatally powerful as religious systems have been, human nature is stronger and wider, and though dogmas may hamper they cannot absolutely repress its growth.
strong thinking soul
When the soul is just liberated from the wretched giant's bed of dogmas on which it has been racked and stretched ever since it began to think, there is a feeling of exultation and strong hope.
atheism impossible new-testament
Subtract from the New Testament the miraculous and highly impossible, and what will be the remainder?
atheism moral judgment
A perverted moral judgment belongs to the dogmatic system.
men thinking atheism
It is time the clergy are told that thinking men, after a close examination of that doctrine, pronounce it to be subversive of true moral development and, therefore, positively noxious.