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
humor debt socialism
A socialist is somebody who doesn't have anything, and is ready to divide it up equally among everybody.
revolution rebellion burden
Revolutions have never lightened the burden of tyranny; they have only shifted it to another shoulder.
incentives months principles
Capitalism drives the employers to do their worst to the employed, and the employed to do the least for them. And it boasts all the time of the incentive it provides to both to do their best! . . . The reason the Capitalist system has worked so far without jamming for more than a few months at a time, and then only in places, is that it has not yet succeeded in making a conquest of human nature so complete that everybody acts on strictly business principles.
wrong-road
After all, the wrong road always leads somewhere.
learning flattery imitation
Imitation is not just the sincerest form of flattery - it's the sincerest form of learning.
challenges progress censorship
All censorships exist to prevent anyone from challenging current conceptions and existing institutions.
making-love opera want
Opera is when a tenor and soprano want to make love, but are prevented from doing so by a baritone.
sarcastic food science
Statistics show that of those who contract the habit of eating, very few survive.
firsts wealth poor
Our first duty is not to be poor.
paradise-on-earth earth paradise
Those who are looking for paradise on Earth should come and see Dubrovnik.
tired blood names
And so, to the end of history, murder shall breed murder, always in the name of right and honor and peace, until the gods are tired of blood and create a race that can understand.
science simple profound
Science is always simple and always profound. It is only the half-truths that are dangerous.
marriage blessing people
Those who talk most about the blessings of marriage and the constancy of its vows are the very people who declare that if the chain were broken and the prisoners left free to choose, the whole social fabric would fly asunder. You cannot have the argument both ways. If the prisoner is happy, why lock him in? If he is not, why pretend that he is?
expression perfect silence
Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn.