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
honesty lying fall
Is not anyone with any degree of mental honesty conscious of telling lies all day long, both in talking and writing, simply because lies will fall into artistic shape when truth will not?
numbers people important
In Moulmein, in lower Burma, I was hated by large numbers of people - the only time in my life that I have been important enough for this to happen to me.
issues discipline enemy
The enemies of intellectual liberty always try to present their case as a plea for discipline versus individualism. The issue truth-versus-untruth is as far as possible kept in the background.
tired blood iron
When one watches some tired hack on the platform mechanically repeating the familiar phrases - bestial atrocities, iron heel, blood-stained tyranny, free peoples of the world, stand shoulder to shoulder - one often has a curious feeling that one is not watching a live human being but some kind of dummy, the appropriate noises are coming out of his larynx, but his brain is not involved
pieces paper appeals
How could you make appeal to the future when not a trace of you, not even an anonymous word scribbled on a piece of paper, could physically survive?
pigs needs being-there
Between pigs and human beings there was not and there need not be any clash of interest whatsoever.
cures sane knows
Do you know why you’re here? Shall I tell you why we brought you here? To cure you.To make you sane.
taken kitchen ham
Some hams hanging in the kitchen were taken out for burial
mistake hands people
Money has become the grand test of virtue. By this test beggars fail, and for this they are despised. If one could earn even ten pounds a week at begging, it would become a respectable profession immediately. A beggar, looked at realistically, is simply a businessman, getting his living, like other businessmen, in the way that comes to hand. He has not, more than most modem people, sold his honour; he has merely made the mistake of choosing a trade at which it is impossible to grow rich.
unborn
For the future. For the unborn.
mistake past secret
The secret of rulership is to combine a belief in one’s own infallibility with a power to learn from past mistakes.
heritage heard sane
It was not by making yourself heard but by staying sane that you carried on the human heritage.
cliffs young solve
She was very young...she still expected something from life, she did not understand that to push an inconvenient person over a cliff solves nothing.
wings two enemy
Whatever goes upon two legs is an enemy. Whatever goes upon four legs, or has wings, is a friend.