Pope Leo XIII on authority
Pope Leo XIII41 quotes“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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Inequality of rights and power proceeds from the very Author of nature.
Pope Leo XIIIPope Leo XIII Catholics are born for combat.
Pope Leo XIIIPope Leo XIII Our own belief is that the renovation of the world will be brought about only by the Holy Eucharist.
Pope Leo XIIIPope Leo XIII 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
Pope Leo XIIIPope Leo XIII 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.
Pope Leo XIIIPope Leo XIII 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.
Pope Leo XIIIPope Leo XIII 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’
Pope Leo XIIIPope Leo XIII 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.
Pope Leo XIIIPope Leo XIII Wages ought not to be insufficient to support a frugal and well-behaved wage-earner.
Pope Leo XIIIPope Leo XIII 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.
Pope Leo XIIIPope Leo XIII Divorce is born of perverted morals and leads to vicious habits.
Pope Leo XIIIPope Leo XIII 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.
Pope Leo XIIIPope Leo XIII 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 XIIIPope Leo XIII 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.
Pope Leo XIIIPope Leo XIII 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.
Pope Leo XIIIPope Leo XIII Nothing is more important than to war on war.
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Arguments from authority carry little weight, authorities have made mistakes in the past. They will do so again in the future. Perhaps a better way to say it is that in science there are no authorities; at most, there are experts.
Carl SaganCarl Sagan Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.
SenecaSeneca Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit more.
Mark TwainMark Twain Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit more.
Mark TwainMark Twain What you hear in my voice is fury, not suffering. Anger, not moral authority.
Audre LordeAudre Lorde The source of the government’s authority is “the consent of the governed.
Ayn RandAyn Rand If there is disturbance in the camp, the general’s authority is weak.
Sun TzuSun Tzu One of the great commandments of science is: Mistrust arguments from authority.
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