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
would-be different impossible
How could you communicate with the future? It was impossible. Either the future would resemble the present in which case it would not listen to him, or it would be different from it, and his predicament would be meaningless.
inspirational leadership winning
High sentiments always win in the end. The leaders who offer blood, toil, tears and sweat always get more out of their followers than those who offer safety and a good time. When it comes to the pinch, human beings are heroic.
love-and-friendship tragedy privacy
Tragedy, he precieved, belonged to the ancient time, to a time when there were still privacy, love, and friendship, and when the members of a family stood by one another without needing to know the reason.
christian political advertising
As with the Christian religion, the worst advertisement for Socialism is its adherents.
trying easy harder
You must try harder. It is not easy to become sane.
equality literature revolution
No advance in wealth, no softening of manners, no reform or revolution has ever brought human equality a millimeter nearer.
tragedy half way
It is one of the tragedies of the half-educated that they develop late, when they are already committed to some wrong way of life.
football children home
So long as they (the Proles) continued to work and breed, their other activities were without importance. Left to themselves, like cattle turned loose upon the plains of Argentina, they had reverted to a style of life that appeared to be natural to them, a sort of ancestral pattern...Heavy physical work, the care of home and children, petty quarrels with neighbors, films, football, beer and above all, gambling filled up the horizon of their minds. To keep them in control was not difficult.
peace war military
The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it.
peace war lying
All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting.
birthday fifty faces
At fifty everyone has the face he deserves.
animal two legs
Four legs good, two legs bad.
art writing long
In certain kinds of writing, particularly in art criticism and literary criticism, it is normal to come across long passages which are almost completely lacking in meaning.
truth political belief
Myths which are believed in tend to become true.