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
truth real political-language
The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns, as it were, instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink.
life wisdom believe
The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.
views point-of-view
From the totalitarian point of view, history is something to be created rather than learned.
running food gun
We may find in the long run that tinned food is a deadlier weapon than the machine-gun.
loss mysterious-things mind
It is a mysterious thing, the loss of faith-as mysterious as faith itself. Like faith, it is ultimately not rooted in logic; it is a change in the climate of the mind.
atheist catholic religion
One cannot really be a Catholic and grown up.
war nineteen ignorance-in-1984
...the object of waging a war is always to be in a better position in which to wage another war.
dirty fighting survival
To survive it is often necessary to fight and to fight you have to dirty yourself.
jobs land house
The capitalists owned everything in the world, and everyone else was their slave. They owned all the land, all the houses, all the factories, and all the money. If anyone disobeyed them they could throw him into prison, or they could take his job away and starve him to death. When any ordinary person spoke to a capitalist he had to cringe and bow to him, and take off his cap and address him as 'Sir'
loneliness mean worry
Lack of money means discomfort, means squalid worries, means shortage of tobacco, means ever-present consciousness of failure-above all, it means loneliness.
birthday trust eight
Not to expose your true feelings to an adult seems to be instinctive from the age of seven or eight onwards.
peace war essentials
The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labor.
cutting thinking passive-voice
Never use a metaphor, simile, or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print. Never use a long word where a short one will do. If it is possible to cut a word out always cut it out. Never use the passive voice where you can use the active. Never use a foreign phrase a scientific word or a jargon word if you can think of an everyday English equivalent. Break any of these rules sooner than say anything outright barbarous.
long london towns
In a town like London there are always plenty of not quite certifiable lunatics walking the streets, and they tend to gravitate towards bookshops, because a bookshop is one of the few places where you can hang about for a long time without spending any money.