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
men missing faults
It is not society's fault that most men seem to miss their vocation. Most men have no vocation.
education judgment aim
The aim of education is the condition of suspended judgment on everything.
philosophy church three
There are three traps that strangle philosophy: The church, the marriage bed, and the professor's chair.
self useless occupation
To condemn spontaneous and delightful occupations because they are useless for self-preservation shows an uncritical prizing of life irrespective of its content.
love positive happiness
To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.
peace stars heart
Though the heart wear the garment of its sorrow And be not happy like a naked star, Yet from the thought of peace some peace we borrow, Some rapture from the rapture felt afar.
love self-love
A friend's only gift is himself.
christian country stranger
The true Christian is in all countries a pilgrim and a stranger.
mean order profound
Order, for a liberal, means only peace; and the hope of a profound peace was one of the chief motives in the liberal movement. Concessions and tolerance and equality would thus have really led to peace, and to peace of the most radical kind, the peace of moral extinction.
authority tendencies urgent
In any close society it is more urgent to restrain others than to be free oneself. Hence the tendency for the central authority to absorb and supersede such as are local or delegated.
profound doubt criticism
Profound skepticism is favorable to conventions, because it doubts that the criticism of conventions is any truer than they are.
memories children parent
Parents lend children their experience and a vicarious memory; children endow their parents with a vicarious immortality.
love men giving
Love, whether sexual, parental, or fraternal, is essentially sacrificial, and prompts a man to give his life for his friends.
education careers moral
To be an American is of itself almost a moral condition, an education, and a career.