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George F. Will

George F. Will

George F. Will föddes den 4 maj 1941
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Greed is envy with its sleeves rolled up.

All politics takes place on a slippery slope. The most important four words in politics are "up to a point."

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.''

[Not all conservatives find the movie a rebuke to Darwin's theory.] If an intelligent designer designed nature, ... why did it decide to make breeding so tedious for those penguins?

[In his Sept. 16 op-ed column,] Solidarity Isn't Forever, ... breaking its promise to confine itself to economic issues and not inject itself into academic decision making, such as the assignment of teachers to particular courses.

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).

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.

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

There is a declining number of Americans paying income taxes, while more and more people are dependent for things that fewer and fewer people are paying for.

The elderly are being subsidized to an astonishing degree.

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.

Voters don't decide issues, they decide who will decide issues.

Patrick Buchanan wants to build a better yesterday

Terrorism is not the only new danger of this era. Another is the administration's argument that because the president is commander in chief, he is the 'sole organ for the nation in foreign affairs' … [which] is refuted by the Constitution's plain language, which empowers Congress to ratify treaties, declare war, fund and regulate military forces, and make laws 'necessary and proper' for the execution of all presidential powers.

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

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