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
marriage law firsts
Unless the law of marriage were first made human, it could never become divine.
government class long
Unless the people can choose their leaders and rulers, and can revoke their choice at intervals long enough to test their measuresby results, the government will be a tyranny exercised in the interests of whatever classes or castes or mobs or cliques have this choice.
savages christianity conversion
The conversion of a savage to Christianity is the conversion of Christianity to savagery.
laughter theatre evening
Unless comedy touches me as well as amuses me, it leaves me with a sense of having wasted my evening. I go to the theatre to be moved to laughter, not to be tickled or bustled into it.
honesty men persons
It is not true that men can be divided into absolutely honest persons and absolutely dishonest ones. Our honesty varies with the strain put on it.
relaxation logical worst
Worst of all, there is no sign of any relaxation of antisemitism. Logically it has nothing to do with Fascism. But the human raceis imitative rather than logical; and as Fascism spreads antisemitism spreads.
punishment uncertain severity
No severity of punishment deters when detection is uncertain, as it always must be.
responsibility years numbers
It is not the number of years we have behind us, but the number we have before us, that makes us careful and responsible and determined to find out the truth about everything.
intellectual moral comedy
The function of comedy is to dispelunconsciousness by turning the searchlight of the keenest moral and intellectual analysisright on to it.
church states church-and-state
Blasphemy and sedition (meaning the truth about Church and State).
revolutionary invention sterilization
The most revolutionary invention of the Nineteenth Century was the artificial sterilization of marriage.
voting liberty males
Unbounded hopes were placed on each successive extension of the electoral franchise, culminating in the enfranchisement of women.These hopes have been disappointed, because the voters, male and female, being politically untrained and uneducated, have (a) no grasp of constructive measures; (b) loathe taxation as such; (c) dislike being governed at all; and (d) dread and resent any extension of official interference as an encroachment on their personal liberty.
merit standing-out distinction
Only where there is pecuniary equality can the distinction of merit stand out.
policy
Defeatism is the wretchedest of policies.