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
cutting simile figures-of-speech
If it is possible to cut a word out, always cut it out
class objective-truth succeed
A society becomes totalitarian when its structure becomes flagrantly artificial: that is, when its ruling class has lost its function but succeeds in clinging to power by force or fraud.
failure winning games
In this game that we're playing, we can't win. Some kinds of failure are better than other kinds, that's all.
daughter writing way
There is only one way to make money at writing, and that is to marry a publisher's daughter.
writing good-writing thrive
Good writing is like a windowpane.
country tea-drinking civilization
Tea is one of the main stays of civilization in this country.
stars eye use
The stars are a free show; it don’t cost anything to use your eyes
art lying book
When I sit down to write a book, I do not say to myself, 'I am going to produce a work of art.' I write it because there is some lie that I want to expose, some fact to which I want to draw attention, and my initial concern is to get a hearing.
autobiography trusted disgraceful
Autobiography is only to be trusted when it reveals something disgraceful.
empty hollow
You will be hollow. We shall squeeze you empty, and then we shall fill you with ourselves.
government punishment evil
I worked out an anarchistic theory that all government is evil, that the punishment always does more harm than the crime and the people can be trusted to behave decently if you will only let them alone.
lonely broken long
He was a lonely ghost uttering a truth that nobody would ever hear. But so long as he uttered it, in some obscure way the continuity was not broken. It was not by making yourself heard but by staying sane that you carried on the human heritage.
successful eggs two
It had become usual to give Napoleon the Credit for every Successful achievement and every stroke of good fortune. You would often hear one hen remark to another, “Under the guidance of our leader, Comrade Napoleon, I have laid five eggs in six days” or two cows, enjoying a drink at the pool, would exclaim, “thanks to the leadership of Comrade Napoleon, how excellent this water tastes!”...
lying telling-the-truth propaganda
All propaganda is lies, even when one is telling the truth.