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 freedom liberty
Circus dogs jump when the trainer cracks his whip.
intelligent sane ignorance-in-1984
The more intelligent, the less sane
freedom writing rights
Threats to freedom of speech, writing and action, though often trivial in isolation, are cumulative in their effect and, unless checked, lead to a general disrespect for the rights of the citizen.
intelligent giving atheism
What can you do against the lunatic who is more intelligent than yourself, who gives your arguments a fair hearing and then simply persists in his lunacy?
brother struggle victory
But it was alright, everything was alright, the struggle was finished. He had won the victory over himself. He loved Big Brother.
darkness sound assumption
You had to live - did live, from habit that became instinct - in the assumption that evey sound you made was overheard, and, except in darkness, every moment scrutinized.
communication joints language
Language ought to be the joint creation of poets and manual workers.
knowing police darkness
There was of course no way of knowing whether you were being watched at any given moment. How often, or on what system, the Thought Police plugged in on any individual wire was guesswork. It was even conceivable that they watched everybody all the time. But at any rate they could plug in your wire whenever they wanted to. You had to live-did live, from habit that became instinct-in the assumption that every sound you made was overheard, and, except in darkness, every movement scrutinized.
men animal pigs
The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.
love marriage giving
If you loved someone, you loved him, and when you had nothing else to give, you still gave him love.
roots evil long
The planting of a tree, especially one of the long-living hardwood trees, is a gift which you can make to posterity at almost no cost and with almost no trouble, and if the tree takes root it will far outlive the visible effect of any of your other actions, good or evil.
sex fruit-juice feminist
One sometimes gets the impression that the mere words ' Socialism ' and ' Communism ' draw towards them with magnetic force every fruit-juice drinker, nudist, sandal-wearer, sex-maniac, Quaker, 'Nature Cure' quack, pacifist, and feminist in England.
insanity minorities lunatic
Perhaps a lunatic was simply a minority of one.
lying cities police
The atom bombs are piling up in the factories, the police are prowling through the cities, the lies are streaming from the loudspeakers, but the earth is still going round the sun.