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
peace political-language atrocities-committed
The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, but he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them.
dream peace time
Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
peace war ubuntu
Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac.
keeping-secrets kept-secrets want
If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself.
funny sarcasm animal
All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.
expression giving anxiety
It was terribly dangerous to let your thoughts wander when you were in any public place or within range of a telescreen. The smallest thing could give you away. A nervous tic, an unconscious look of anxiety, a habit of muttering to yourself-anything that carried with it the suggestion of abnormality, of having something to hide. In any case, to wear an improper expression on your face ... was itself a punishable offense. There was even a word for it in Newspeak: facecrime ...
want news advertising
News is something somebody doesn't want printed; all else is advertising.
lying choices freedom-and-happiness
The choice for mankind lies between freedom and happiness and for the great bulk of mankind, happiness is better.
believe animal decision
No one believes more firmly than Comrade Napoleon that all animals are equal. He would be only too happy to let you make your decisions for yourselves. But sometimes you might make the wrong decisions, comrades, and then where should we be?
courage truth struggle
To see what is in front of one’s nose needs a constant struggle.
life happiness happy
Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.
dog book reading
And if our book consumption remains as low as it has been, at least let us admit that it is because reading is a less exciting pastime than going to the dogs, the pictures or the pub, and not because books, whether bought or borrowed, are too expensive.
modern frills
The modern writer who has influenced me most is W. Somerset Maugham .
men ugly may
A man may take to drink because he feels himself to he a failure, and then fail all the more completely because he drinks. It is rather the same thing that is happening to the English language. It becomes ugly and inaccurate because our thoughts are foolish, but the slovenliness of our language makes it easier for us to have foolish thoughts.