George Weigel Quotes
Ideas are not intellectuals' toys: ideas have consequences, for good and for ill, in what even intellectuals sometimes call "the real world".

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Freedom is the great organizing principle of a life lived in a truly human way.

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Homo voluntatis cannot explain why some things that can be done should not be done.

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American power made it possible for Europeans to believe that power was no longer important." -Robert Kagan

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If moral relativism was legally absolutized in the name of tolerance, basic rights were also relativized and the door was open to totalitarianism.

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We must learn not to be afraid, we must rediscover a spirit of hope and a spirit of trust.

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Concerns about democracy’s future are better directed elsewhere, John Paul argues, for if “there is no ultimate truth to guide and direct political activity, then ideas and convictions can easily be manipulated for reasons of power.

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Much of late modernity assumes that dependence on God is a mark of human immaturity and an obstacle to human freedom. The life of Karol Wojtyła and his accomplishment as Pope John Paul II suggest a dramatic, alternative possibility: that a man who has been seized and transformed by t . . . Read more

-George Weigel