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
lying salt grain
Wisdom lies in taking everything with good humor and a grain of salt.
war flower waste
It is war that wastes a nations wealth, chokes its industries, kills its flower, narrows its sympathies, condemns it to be governed by adventurers, and leaves the puny, deformed, and unmanly to breed the next generation.
believe discipline mind
Skepticism is a discipline fit to purify the mind of prejudice and render it all the more apt, when the time comes, to believe and to act wisely.
graduation wisdom diversity
The wisest mind has something yet to learn.
past infancy-is history
Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
beautiful simplicity simple-life
I like to walk about amidst the beautiful things that adorn the world.
motivational perseverance courage
The Difficult is that which can be done immediately; the Impossible that which takes a little longer.
lying confused competition
Advertising is the modern substitute for argument, its function is to make the worse appear the better article. A confused competition of all propagandas -- those insults to human nature -- is carried on by the most expert psychological methods -- for instance, by always repeating a lie.
equilibrium idiocy universe
Perhaps the universe is nothing but an equilibrium of idiocies.
clever causes energy
Sometimes the very learned and clever can be brilliantly foolish, especially when seized by an apparently good cause.
couple children divorce
Couples with children who do win a divorce, cause such social havoc that they should have to pay a special divorce tax.
divorce want return
I want a return to the divorce system based on the fault of one spouse.
religious opportunity political
The church is not primarily a political organisation. We're a religious organisation. There's a much greater opportunity.
people church reform
There's no possibility for vitality in the church without fidelity to the gospels. If you look at the Churches throughout the world, throughout the Western world, where radical reform has been attempted, the Church has collapsed and almost disappeared. The vitality in the Church, the young people who are here in their tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands possibly, young people who belong, who adhere strongly to the central tradition of Christ and the Church.