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
wings fire people
So much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don't even know that fire is hot.
pain hero faces
In the face of pain there are no heroes.
dog knowing anxiety
It is a feeling of relief, almost of pleasure, at knowing yourself at last genuinely down and out. You have talked so often of going to the dogs - and well, here are the dogs, and you have reached them, and you can stand it. It takes off a lot of anxiety.
jobs punishment people
Most people approve of capital punishment, but most people wouldn't do the hangman's job.
faith two orthodoxy
Orthodoxy is the ability to say two and two make five when faith requires it.
love-you men care
If you have no money, men won't care for you, women won't love you; won't, that is, care for you or love you the last little bit that matters.
effectiveness challenges atheism
Anyone who challenges the prevailing orthodoxy finds himself silenced with surprising effectiveness. A genuinely unfashionable opinion is almost never given a fair hearing.
art attitude should-have
The opinion that art should have nothing to do with politics is itself a political attitude.
memorial-day ideas evil
All that was required of them (i.e. the brain-washed masses) was a primitive patriotism which could be appealed to whenever it was necessary to make them accept longer working hours or shorter rations. And even when they became discontented, as they sometimes did, their discontent led nowhere, because, being without general ideas, they could only focus it on petty specific grievances. The larger evils invariably escaped their notice.
romantic hair smell
The smell of her hair, the taste of her mouth, the feeling of her skin seemed to have got inside him, or into the air all round him. She had become a physical necessity.
party past expression
Day by day and almost minute by minute the past was brought up to date. In this way every prediction made by the Party could be shown by documentary evidence to have been correct; nor was any item of news, or any expression of opinion, which conflicted with the needs of the moment, ever allowed to remain on record. All history was a palimpsest, scraped clean and reinscribed exactly as often as was necessary.
perfect liberty libertarian
The Revolution will be complete when the language is perfect.
art hands propaganda
All art is propaganda; on the other hand, not all propaganda is art.
honesty writing views
When I talk to anyone or read the writings of anyone who has any axe to grind, I feel that intellectual honesty and balanced judgement have simply disappeared from the face of the earth. Everyone's thought is forensic, everyone is simply putting a "case" with deliberate suppression of his opponent's point of view, and, what is more, with complete insensitiveness to any sufferings except those of himself and his friends.