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
leadership dream famous-inspirational
You see things and you say, 'Why?'. But I dream things and I say, 'Why not?'.
marriage people morality
Morality consists of suspecting other people of not being legally married.
peace powerful war
If all the Churches of Europe closed their doors until the drums ceased rolling they would act as a most powerful reminder that though the glory of war is a famous and ancient glory, it is not the final glory of God.
peace moral animal-cruelty
Cruelty must be whitewashed by a moral excuse, and pretense of reluctance.
hate emotional those-we-love
Who are those we love? Only those we do not hate.
nature jobs taken
There is nothing that can be changed more completely than human nature when the job is taken in hand early enough.
love-is done deeds
When we want to read of the deeds that are done for love, whither do we turn? To the murder column.
evil poverty crime
The greatest of evils and the worst of crimes is poverty.
evil poverty firsts
The greatest evils and the worst of crimes is poverty; our first duty, a duty to which every other consideration should be sacrificed, is not to be poor.
money wealth
Money is the counter that enables life to be lived socially; it is life as truly as sovereigns and banknotes are money.
numbers giving wrong-answers
You propound a complicated arithmetical problem: say cubing a number containing four digits. Give me a slate and half an hour's time, and I can produce a wrong answer.
tickling world originality
What the world calls originality is only an unaccustomed method of tickling it.
maturity mature creatures
It is the highest creatures who take the longest to mature, and are the most helpless during their immaturity.
practice civilization rotten
Civilization is a disease produced by the practice of building societies with rotten material.