82 ordspråk av George F. Will

US  George F. Will

George F. Will föddes den 4 mei 1941
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 If you want to understand your government, don't begin by reading the Constitution. Instead, read selected portions of the Washington telephone directory containing listings for all organizations with titles beginning with the word "National."

 If your job is to leaven ordinary lives with elevating spectacle, be elevating or be gone.

 In the 1940s a survey listed the top seven discipline problems in public schools: talking, chewing gum, making noise, running in the halls, getting out of line, wearing improper clothes, and not putting paper in wastebaskets. A more recent survey lists these top seven: drug abuse, alcohol abuse, pregnancy, suicide, rape, robbery, and assault. (Arson, gang warfare, and venereal disease are also-rans).

 In the lexicon of the political class, the word "sacrifice" means that the citizens are supposed to mail even more of their income to Washington so that the political class will not have to sacrifice the pleasure of spending it.

 It is committee meetings, called huddles, separated by outbursts of violence.

 It is no longer enough to be lusty. One must be a sexual gourmet.

 It is said that God gave us memory so we could have roses in winter. But it is also true that without memory we could not have self in any season. The more memories you have, the more you have. That is why, as Swift said, ''No wise man ever wished to be younger.''

 Leadership is, among other things, the ability to inflict pain and get away with it - short-term pain for long-term gain.

 Like a graceful vase, a cat, even when motionless, seems to flow.

 Long before Einstein told us that matter is energy, Machiavelli and Hobbes and other modern political philosophers defined man as a lump of matter whose most politically relevant attribute is a form of energy called ''self-interestedness.'' This was not a

 Modern man's capacity for destruction is quixotic evidence of humanity's capacity for reconstruction. The powerful technological agents we have unleashed against the environment include many of the agents we require for its reconstruction.

 Part of the beauty and much of the moral seriousness of sport derives from the severe justice of strenuous play in a circumscribed universe of rules that protect the integrity of competition. Records are worth recording, and worth striving to surpass, because they serve as benchmarks of excellence achieved under the pressure of competition.

 Patrick Buchanan wants to build a better yesterday

 Pessimism is as American as apple pie-frozen apple pie with a slice of processed cheese.

 Politicians employ speech writers as ventriloquists.


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