Inequality of rights and power proceeds from the very Author of nature.
POPE LEO XIIINothing is more important than to war on war.
More Pope Leo XIII Quotes
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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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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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Heart of Jesus, burning with love for us, inflame our hearts with love of Thee.
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It is an in, a grave evil and a disturbance of the right order, for a larger and higher organisation, to arrogate to itself functions which can be performed efficiently by smaller and lower bodies.
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It is not the part of prudence to neglect that which antiquity in its long experience has approved and which is also taught by apostolic authority.
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The family was ordained of God that children might be trained up for himself; it was before the church, or rather the first form of the church on earth.
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Wages ought not to be insufficient to support a frugal and well-behaved wage-earner.
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Divorce is born of perverted morals and leads to vicious habits.
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Moreover, Christians are born for combat, whereof the greater the vehemence, the more assured, God willing, the triumph: ‘Have confidence; I have overcome the world’
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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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It is quite unlawful to demand, defend, or to grant unconditional freedom of thought, or speech, of writing or worship, as if these were so many rights given by nature to man.
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Nothing emboldens the wicked so greatly as the lack of courage on the part of the good.
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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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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.
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To suffer and to endure is the lot of humanity.
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