Top 7 Quotes & Sayings by Alan Wolfe

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Last updated on December 5, 2024.

Alan Wolfe is an American political scientist and a sociologist on the faculty of Boston College who serves as director of the Boisi Center for Religion and American Public Life. He is also a member of the Advisory Board of the Future of American Democracy Foundation, a nonprofit, nonpartisan foundation in partnership with Yale University Press and the Yale Center for International and Area Studies, "dedicated to research and education aimed at renewing and sustaining the historic vision of American democracy".

American - Scientist | Born: 1942

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We ought to be more focused on enemies without than preoccupied with finding them within.

Alan Wolfe

Iraq failed for the same reasons that all conservative public policy efforts fail. Refusing to acknowledge the importance of government while relying on it to achieve your objectives causes the same kind of chaos in foreign policy that it does in matters closer to home.

Alan Wolfe

If once in America the question of religious toleration was raised in defense of nonbelievers who dissented from religious orthodoxy, today it is raised by believers who feel excluded from a predominantly secular public world.

Alan Wolfe

Conservatives cannot govern well for the same reason that vegetarians cannot prepare a world-class boeuf bourguignon: If you believe that what you are called upon to do is wrong, you are not likely to do it very well.

Alan Wolfe

We're willing to move pretty far on this issue, we're much more tolerant than we used to be, but don't mix it up with religion and God.

Alan Wolfe

In every aspect of the religious life, American faith has met American culture--and American culture has triumphed.

Alan Wolfe