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
food bags humans
A human being is primarily a bag for putting food into.
loneliness people age
To talk, simply to talk! It sounds so little, and how much it is! When you have existed to the brink of middle age in bitter loneliness, among people to whom your true opinion on every subject on earth is blasphemy, the need to talk is the greatest of all needs.
machines use warfare
The primary aim of modern warfare ... is to use up the products of the machine without raising the general standard of living.
political-language house together
[Political] prose consists less and less of words chosen for the sake of their meaning, and more and more of phrases tacked together like the sections of a prefabricated hen-house.
naval dictatorship
There is no such thing as a naval dictatorship.
sanity submission
You would not make the act of submission which is the price of sanity.
true-life splinters life-is
We are the dead. Our only true life is in the future.
circles ideas forever
When you meet anyone in the flesh you realize immediately that he is a human being and not a sort of caricature embodying certain ideas. It is partly for this reason that I don't mix much in literary circles, because I know from experience that once I have met and spoken to anyone I shall never again be able to feel any intellectual brutality towards him, even when I feel I ought to - like the Labour M.P.s who get patted on the back by dukes and are lost forever more.
humans human-relations human-relationships
All human relationships must be purchased with money.
leadership courage empowering-others
When it comes to the pinch, human beings are heroic.
birthday trust eight
Not to expose your true feelings to an adult seems to be instinctive from the age of seven or eight onwards.
humility fools-day aggravation
The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded.
minorities lunatic
You preferred to be a lunatic, a minority of one.
goes-on deny
However much you deny the truth, the truth goes on existing.