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
inspirational life language-words
But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.
real division libertarian
The real division is not between conservatives and revolutionaries but between authoritarians and libertarians.
break bigs ifs
If you kept the small rules, you could break the big ones.
mistake past order
A totalitarian state is in effect a theocracy, and its ruling caste, in order to keep its position, has to be thought of as infallible. But since, in practice, no one is infallible, it is frequently necessary to rearrange past events in order to show that this or that mistake was not made, or that this or that imaginary triumph actually happened.
witty peace truth
Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.
opposites devotion conservatism
Patriotism has nothing to do with Conservatism. It is actually the opposite of Conservatism, since it is a devotion to something that is always changing and yet is felt to be mystically the same.
writing window-panes should
Good prose should be transparent, like a window pane.
men groups three
The aims of these three groups are entirely irreconcilable. The aim of the High is to remain where they are. The aim of the Middle is to change places with the High. The aim of the Low, when they have an aim-for it is an abiding characteristic of the Low that they are too much crushed by drudgery to be more than intermittently conscious of anything outside their daily lives -is to abolish all distinctions and create a society in which all men shall be equal.
party endless
History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.
memories past agree-upon
The past is whatever the records and the memories agree upon.
war hands two
The choice before human beings, is not, as a rule , between good and evil but between two evils. You can let the Nazis rule the world : that is evil; or you can overthrow them by war , which is also evil. There is no other choice before you, and whichever you choose you will not come out with clean hands.
order revolution doe
One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes a revolution in order to establish a dictatorship.
freedom thinking liberty
I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt.
change party answers
Now I will tell you the answer to my question. It is this. The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake. We are not interested in the good of others; we are interested solely in power, pure power.