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
intelligent men personality
The intellectual is different from the ordinary man, but only in certain sections of his personality, and even then not all the time.
atheist catholic religion
One cannot really be a Catholic and grown up.
political-language decay chaos
Political chaos is connected with the decay of language... one can probably bring about some improvement by starting at the verbal end.
learning unhappy looks
No one can look back on his schooldays and say with truth that they were altogether unhappy.
issues wish important
Within any important issue, there are always aspects no one wishes to discuss.
humor tiny revolution
Every Joke is a Tiny Revolution
motivational enemy truth-is
Truth becomes untruth if uttered by your enemy
love-and-friendship tragedy privacy
Tragedy, he precieved, belonged to the ancient time, to a time when there were still privacy, love, and friendship, and when the members of a family stood by one another without needing to know the reason.
autobiography trusted disgraceful
Autobiography is only to be trusted when it reveals something disgraceful.
mistake believe reality
You believe that reality is something objective, external, existing in its own right. You also believe that the nature of reality is self-evident. When you delude yourself into thinking that you see something, you assume that everyone else sees the same thing as you. But I tell you, Winston, that reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else. Not in the individual mind, which can make mistakes, and in any case soon perishes: only in the mind of the Paty, which is collective and immortal.
literary-merit survival tests
There is no test of literary merit except survival, which is itself an index to majority opinion.
envy suffering tragedy
Envy is a horrible thing. It is unlike all other kinds of suffering in that there is no disguising it, no elevating it into tragedy. It is more than merely painful, it is disgusting.
powder objects
The object of powder is powder.
couple past lines
It was true that there was no such person as Comrade Oglivy, but a few lines of print and a couple of faked photographs would soon bring him into existence... Comrade Oglivy, who had never existed in the present, now existed in the past, and when once the act of forgery was forgotten, he would exist just as authentically, and upon the same evidence, as Charlemagne or Julius Caesar.