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
justice bars spirit
Society itself is an accident to the spirit, and if society in any of its forms is to be justified morally it must be justified at the bar of the individual conscience.
passion knowing matter
Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about his taste, nor condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.
country children citizens
It is right to prefer our own country to all others, because we are children and citizens before we can be travellers or philosophers.
fighting animal men
Man is a fighting animal; his thoughts are his banners, and it is a failure of nerve in him if they are only thoughts.
fate perfect lines
The Fates, like an absent-minded printer, seldom allow a single line to stand perfect and unmarred.
eye heart imagination
It is one thing to lack a heart and another to possess eyes and a just imagination.
life
It is the acme of life to understand life.
mind suffering body
A body seriously out of equilibrium, either with itself or with its environment, perishes outright. Not so a mind. Madness and suffering can set themselves no limit.
nature firsts provoking
The works of nature first acquire a meaning in the commentaries they provoke.
heart eye men
The constant demands of the heart and the belly can allow man only an incidental indulgence in the pleasures of the eye and the understanding.
long may honey
The fly that prefers sweetness to a long life may drown in honey.
long poetry ancient
Popular poets are the parish priests of the Muse, retailing her ancient divinations to a long since converted public.
heaven inner-peace
Heaven is to be at peace with things.
apes terrible irrational
The irrational in the human has something about it altogether repulsive and terrible, as we see in the maniac, the miser, the drunkard or the ape.