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
exercise marketing matter
All the papers that matter live off their advertisements, and the advertisers exercise an indirect censorship over news.
pain stupid our-world
Do you begin to see, then, what kind of world we are creating? It is the exact opposite of the stupid hedonistic Utopias that the old reformers imagined. A world of fear and treachery and torment, a world of trampling and being trampled upon, a world which will grow not less but more merciless as it refines itself. Progress in our world will be progress toward more pain.
mind abyss poetry-is
He drove his mind into the abyss where poetry is written.
humor tiny revolution
Every Joke is a Tiny Revolution
strong years tea
All true tea lovers not only like their tea strong, but like it a little stronger with each year that passes.
party reality views
In a way, the world−view of the Party imposed itself most successfully on people incapable of understanding it. They could be made to accept the most flagrant violations of reality, because they never fully grasped the enormity of what was demanded of them, and were not sufficiently interested in public events to notice what was happening. By lack of understanding they remained sane. They simply swallowed everything, and what they swallowed did them no harm, because it left no residue behind, just as a grain of corn will pass undigested through the body of a bird.
lying there-is-hope 1984-movie
If there is hope, it lies in the proles.
writing wish doe
I do not wish to comment on the work; if it does not speak for itself, it is a failure.
past mind world
If both the past and the external world exist only in the mind, and if the mind itself is controllable - what then?
wall lying heart
It was curious to think that the sky was the same for everybody, in Eurasia or Eastasia as well as here. And the people under the sky were also very much the same--everywhere, all over the world, hundreds or thousands of millions of people just like this, people ignorant of one another's existence, held apart by walls of hatred and lies, and yet almost exactly the same--people who had never learned to think but were storing up in their hearts and bellies and muscles the power that would one day overturn the world.
darkness nineteen 1984-important
We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness.
love children return
One can love a child, perhaps, more deeply than one can love another adult, but it is rash to assume that the child feels any love in return.
mean thinking orthodoxy
Orthodoxy means not thinking--not needing to think. Orthodoxy is unconsciousness.
beautiful language destruction
It's a beautiful thing, the destruction of words.