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
flames people desire
A hideous ecstasy of fear and vindictiveness, a desire to kill, to torture, to smash faces in with a sledge hammer, seemed to flow through the whole group of people like an electric current, turning one even against one's will into a grimacing, screaming lunatic. And yet the rage that one felt was an abstract, undirected emotion which could be switched from one object to another like the flame of a blowlamp.
political-language decay chaos
Political chaos is connected with the decay of language... one can probably bring about some improvement by starting at the verbal end.
inspirational enemy language
The greatest enemy of clear language is insincerity.
necklaces generations corpses
A generation of the unteachable is hanging upon us like a necklace of corpses.
peace war intelligent
War is a way of shattering to pieces... materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable and... too intelligent.
life fake-people politics
Early in life I had noticed that no event is ever correctly reported in a newspaper.
learning unhappy looks
No one can look back on his schooldays and say with truth that they were altogether unhappy.
love pain hard-work
The main motive for nonattachment is a desire to escape from the pain of living, and above all from love, which, sexual or non-sexual, is hard work.
worship politician thrive
Liberal: a power worshipper without power.
education punishment doubt
I doubt whether classical education ever has been or can be successfully carried out without corporal punishment.
happiness play piano
But what is work and what is not work? Is it work to dig, to carpenter, to plant trees, to fell trees, to ride, to fish, to hunt, to feed chickens, to play the piano, to take photographs, to build a house, to cook, to sew, to trim hats, to mend motor bicycles? All of these things are work to somebody, and all of them are play to somebody. There are in fact very few activities which cannot be classed either as work or play according as you choose to regard them.
literature stealing wells
Dickens is one of those authors who are well worth stealing.
dirty naughty nasty
A dirty joke is a sort of mental rebellion.
life orthodoxy unconsciousness
Orthodoxy is unconsciousness.