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Freedom Quotes by Pope Benedict XVI
- A just laicism allows religious freedom. The state does not impose religion but rather gives space to religions with a responsibility toward civil society, and…
- How much we need, in the church and in society, witnesses of the beauty of holiness, witnesses of the splendour of truth, witnesses of the…
- The freedom to kill is not a true freedom, but a tyranny that reduces human beings to slavery.
- Go forth! Carry the good tidings to the poor, bind the wounds of the brokenhearted, proclaim freedom to slaves, open the doors of prisons to…
- The more administrative machinery we construct, be it the most modern, the less place there is for the Spirit, the less place there is for…
- The "name" of the Most Holy Trinity is in a certain way impressed upon everything that exists, because everything that exists, down to the least…
- Everything is a gift from God: it is only by recognizing this crucial dependence on the Creator that we will find freedom and peace.
- When, for example, in the name of non-discrimination, people try to force the Catholic Church to change her position on homosexuality or the ordination of…
- I thank Missio, (Pontifical Mission Societies), the primary instruments for cooperation in the universal Church's universal mission in the world. Through their action, the proclamation…
- Jesus resolved the false opposition between obedience and freedom and opened the path to freedom
- In the name of freedom, there has to be a correlation between rights and duties, by which every person is called to assume responsibility for…
- Human rights, of course, must include the right to religious freedom, understood as the expression of a dimension that is at once individual and communitarian…
More Freedom Quotes
- Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom. — Hannah Arendt
- Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either… — Hannah Arendt
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in… — Hannah Arendt
- It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. — Aristotle
- Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers. — Aristotle
- If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when… — Aristotle
- I mean there's enormous pressures to harmonize freedom of speech legislation and transparency legislation around the world - within the E.U., between… — Julian Assange
- Punk has always been about doing things your own way. What it represents for me is ultimate freedom and a sense of… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- To criticize a person for their race is manifestly irrational and ridiculous, but to criticize their religion, that is a right. That… — Rowan Atkinson
- I've never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It's probably because they have forgotten their own. — Margaret Atwood
- If social stability goes pear-shaped, you have a choice between anarchy and dictatorship. Most people will opt for more security, even if… — Margaret Atwood