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
home government cows
Despotic governments can stand 'moral force' till the cows come home; what they fear is physical force.
jealousy sports war
Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting.
brother government bigs
Big Brother is watching you.
together-again mind pieces
Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing.
party heart eye
The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command. His heart sank as he thought of the enormous power arrayed against him, the ease with which any Party intellectual would overthrow him in debate, the subtle arguments which he would not be able to understand, much less answer. And yet he was in the right! They were wrong and he was right.
funny life talking
I enjoy talking to you. Your mind appeals to me. It resembles my own mind except that you happen to be insane.
love-you men care
If you have no money, men won't care for you, women won't love you; won't, that is, care for you or love you the last little bit that matters.
tragedy half way
It is one of the tragedies of the half-educated that they develop late, when they are already committed to some wrong way of life.
birthday fifty faces
At fifty everyone has the face he deserves.
truth reality mind
Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else.
want news advertising
News is something somebody doesn't want printed; all else is advertising.
truth political belief
Myths which are believed in tend to become true.
honesty writing views
When I talk to anyone or read the writings of anyone who has any axe to grind, I feel that intellectual honesty and balanced judgement have simply disappeared from the face of the earth. Everyone's thought is forensic, everyone is simply putting a "case" with deliberate suppression of his opponent's point of view, and, what is more, with complete insensitiveness to any sufferings except those of himself and his friends.
badass intelligent imagination
Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.