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
columbus world another-world
Columbus gave the world another world.
pleasure barbarism
Since barbarism has its pleasures it naturally has its apologists.
disillusionment
Wisdom comes from disillusionment.
love-life religion consciousness
Religion is the love of life in the consciousness of impotence.
echoes heaven world
I leave you but the sound of many a word In mocking echoes haply overheard, I sang to heaven. My exile made me free, from world to world, from all worlds carried me.
tunes concerts hard
In the concert of nature it is hard to keep in tune with oneself if one is out of tune with everything else
kings history interesting
History is always written wrong, and so always needs to be rewritten. ...What is interesting is brought forward as if it had been central and efficacious in the march of events, and harmonies are turned into causes. Kings and generals are endowed with motives appropriate to what the historian values in their actions; plans are imputed to them prophetic of their actual achievements, while the thoughts that really preoccupied them remain buried in absolute oblivion.
shells thousand
The word experience is like a shrapnel shell, and bursts into a thousand meanings.
tides body evolution
The tide of evolution carries everything before it, thoughts no less than bodies, and persons no less than nations.
time knowing eternity
Time is like an enterprising manager always bent on staging some new and surprising production, without knowing very well what it will be.
share intolerance form
Intolerance is a form of egotism, and to condemn egotism intolerantly is to share it.
apes terrible irrational
The irrational in the human has something about it altogether repulsive and terrible, as we see in the maniac, the miser, the drunkard or the ape.
patriotic soul patriotism
To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.
tyrants care instruments
Tyrants are seldom free; the cares and the instruments of their tyranny enslave them.