People differ in capacity, skill, health, strength; and unequal fortune is a necessary result of unequal condition. Such inequality is far from being disadvantageous either to individuals or to the community.
POPE LEO XIIIPeace is built on the foundation of justice.
More Pope Leo XIII Quotes
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No human law can abolish the natural and original right of marriage, nor in any way limit the chief and principal purpose of marriage ordained by God’s authority from the beginning: “Increase and multiply.
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Peace is built on the foundation of justice.
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It is shameful and inhuman to treat men like chattels to make money by, or to regard them merely as so much muscle or physical power.
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It is neither just nor human so to grind men down with excessive labour as to stupefy their minds and wear out their bodies.
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The present age handed over the workers, each alone and defenseless, to the unbridled greed of competitors… so that a very few and exceedingly rich men have laid a yoke of almost slavery on the unnumbered masses of non-owning workers.
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God is not only true, but Truth itself.
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The first law of history is to dread uttering a falsehood; the next is not to fear stating the truth; lastly, the historian’s writings should be open to no suspicion of partiality or animosity.
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We hold upon this earth the place of God Almighty.
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Inequality of rights and power proceeds from the very Author of nature.
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To suffer and to endure is the lot of humanity.
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Once the demands of necessity and propriety have been met, the rest that one owns belongs to the poor.
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The fact that God gave the whole human race the earth to use and enjoy cannot indeed in any manner serve as an objection against private possessions.
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There is in the Sacred Heart the symbol and express image of the infinite love of Jesus Christ which moves us to love in return.
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Every man has by nature the right to possess property as his own. This is one of the chief points of distinction between man and the animal creation.
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We are convinced that the Rosary, if devotely used is bound to benefit not only the individual but society at large.
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