The basic struggle today is not between individualism and collectivism, free enterprise and socialism, democracy and dictatorship. These are only the superficial… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
Nothing is more destined to create deep-seated anxieties in people than the false assumption that life should be free from anxieties. — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
“Divinely wise souls often infuriate the worldly-wise because they always see things from the Divine point of view. The worldly are willing… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
The slave states of Western world are an outgrowth of monopolistic capitalism - an economic system which is opposed to the wide… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
It is the basic principle of Marxism that any attempt to reconcile capital and labor so that they both co-operate in peace… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
Some will not look on suffering because it creates responsibility. — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
Neither theological knowledge nor social action alone is enough to keep us in love with Christ unless both are proceeded by a… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
The workmen in a factory may have a shadowy, unknown absentee "employer" - the thousands of individual owners of stock - whom… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
The denial of the right of ownership to a man is a denial of his basic freedom: freedom without property is always… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
There are three ways in which a man becomes a slave. He may be born into slavery, or forced into it, or… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
Not only were the Jews expecting the birth of a Great King, a Wise Man and a Saviour, but Plato and Socrates… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
A democracy flirts with the danger of becoming a slave in direct ratio to the numbers of its citizens who work, but… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
Monopolistic capitalism is to blame for this; it sunders the right to own property from responsibility that owning property involves. Those who… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
Possession properly has two faces, two aspects: we all have a right to private property, but this is accompanied by our responsibility… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
One of the greatest disasters that happened to modern civilization was for democracy to inscribe "liberty" on its banners instead of "justice."… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
Faced with such insecurity, labor unions seek a solution in demands for higher wages, shorter hours, pensions, and such things. But this… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
The Western world generally has lost the concept of man as a creature made to the image and likeness of God, and… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
The industrial and social injustice of our era is the tragic aftermath of democracy's overemphasis on freedom as the "right to do… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
If a man surrenders all power of self-determination in regard to the profits, management or ownership of the place where he works,… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
The simple shepherds heard the voice of an angel and found their Lamb; the wise men saw the light of a star… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
As long as the decent people refuse to believe that morality must manifest itself in every sphere of human activity, including the… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
Nothing can do men of good will more harm than apparent compromises with parties that subscribe to antimoral and antidemocratic and anti-God… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
There are 200 million poor in the world who would gladly take the vow of poverty if they could eat, dress and have a… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
Love is the key to the mystery. Love by its very nature is not selfish, but generous. It seeks not its own, but the… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
“This is what Aristotle meant when he said that the object of science is the necessary and the universal; man and not this man.” — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
Pride is an admission of weakness; it secretly fears all competition and dreads all rivals. — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
Calamity, war, famine, plague, death, adversity, disease, injury do not necessarily produce repentance. We may become better in a calamity but it does not… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
No one has ever laughed at a pun who did not see in the one word a twofold meaning. To materialists this world is… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
The Soviet Union is like the Cross without Christ, while American culture is like Christ without the Cross. — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
“The 'fullness of reality' in the second sense of the term is perceived by a combination of both intellect and sense, the senses knowing… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
“The mathematical method is disinterested in the efficient cause and the final cause or the goodness of a thing and it should not be… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
“The Church makes no man less free than he was before. But we chiefly value freedom in order to give it away; every man… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
