George Weigel Quotes

United States, Author
1951

George Weigel is an American author, political analyst, and social activist. He currently serves as a Distinguished Senior Fellow of the Ethics and Public Policy Center. Weigel was the Founding President of the James Madison Foundation. He is the author of the best-selling biography of Pope John Paul II, Witness to Hope and Tranquillitas Ordinis: The Present Failure and Future Promise of American Catholic Thought on War and Peace.

Also known as Political Writer

Optimism and pessimism are mere matters of optics, of how you look at things, and that can change from day to day, or with a new prescription for your glasses - or with a new set of ideological filters.

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Freedom that lacks moral truth becomes its own worst enemy.

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- Truth
- Freedom
- Enemy

In the Vatican, if you don't get something new done quickly you may not get it done at all.

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- Done
- New
- Vatican
Democracy is always an unfinished experiment, testing the capacity of each generation to live freedom nobly.

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The people who are behind the curve of the Catholic future are the institutional-maintenance types.

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The papacy is an impossible job. So the best thing Catholics can do for the pope is to pray for him.

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- Pray
- Catholics
- Papa
A theological time bomb, set to go off with dramatic consequences.

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Ideas have consequences and bad ideas can have lethal consequences.

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- Ideas
- Consequences

The world needs a pastor, whether it knows it or not.

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- World
- Knows
- Pastor
The Guardian,is one of the most consistently anti-Catholic newspapers in the world.

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- Catholic
- Newspapers