It is neither just nor human so to grind men down with excessive labour as to stupefy their minds and wear out their bodies.
POPE LEO XIIIThe liberty of thinking and publishing whatsoever each one likes, without any hindrances, is not in itself an advantage over which society can wisely rejoice. On the contrary, it is the fountainhead and origin of many evils.
More Pope Leo XIII Quotes
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Every man has by nature the right to possess property as his own.
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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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You are not to be looked upon as holding the true Catholic faith if you do not teach that the faith of Rome is to be held
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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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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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Once the demands of necessity and propriety have been met, the rest that one owns belongs to the poor.
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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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Inadequacy of his own strength, learned from experience, impels and urges a man to enlist the help of others.
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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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Heart of Jesus, burning with love for us, inflame our hearts with love of Thee.
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The liberty of thinking and publishing whatsoever each one likes, without any hindrances, is not in itself an advantage over which society can wisely rejoice. On the contrary, it is the fountainhead and origin of many evils.
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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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But the supreme teacher in the Church is the Roman Pontiff. Union of minds, therefore, requires, together with a perfect accord in the one faith, complete submission and obedience of will to the Church and to the Roman Pontiff, as to God Himself.
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Nothing is more important than to war on war.
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Wages ought not to be insufficient to support a frugal and well-behaved wage-earner.
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