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
music useless musician
Music is essentially useless, as is life.
prayer people effort
Prayer, among sane people, has never superseded practical efforts to secure the desired end.
cities mind renaissance
The mind of the Renaissance was not a pilgrim mind, but a sedentary city mind, like that of the ancients.
use conversation impulse
The primary use of conversation is to satisfy the impulse to talk.
together needs intimacy
Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other friendships of the same intimacy.
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.
selfish men inferiority
Let a man once overcome his selfish terror at his own infinitude, and his infinitude is, in one sense, overcome.
dignity internet free-speech
Skepticism, like chastity, should not be relinquished too readily.
world moments contradiction
The world is a perpetual caricature of itself; at every moment it is the mockery and the contradiction of what it is pretending to be.
tyrants care instruments
Tyrants are seldom free; the cares and the instruments of their tyranny enslave them.
long soul world
A soul is but the last bubble of a long fermentation in the world.
nature men answers
By nature's kindly disposition most questions which it is beyond a man's power to answer do not occur to him at all.