220 Quotes by George F. Will

Americans, endowed by their solicitous government with an ever-expanding array of entitlements, now have the whiny mentality that an entitlement culture breeds.

Football features two of the worst aspects of American life, violence and committee meetings.

All God's chillun got shoes or can get them in Mrs Marcos's closet, which is large enough to house Mr and Mrs Duvalier, itinerant nonlaborers.

Although advertising is communication unusually candid about its motivation, Americans love to loathe it. As society becomes more complex and opaque, as social processes seem more impersonal and autonomous, and as elites of ""experts"" become more annoying, more people are tempted to think that some ""they"" is manipulating ""us,"" using, among other dark arts, advertising.

Pettiness is the tendency of people without large purposes.

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.

The future has a way of arriving unannounced.

Actually, there is only one first question of government, and it is How should we live? or What kind of people do we want our citizens to be?

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