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Social Quotes by Pope John Paul II
- Truth must be the foundation stone, the cement to solidify the entire social edifice.
- True holiness does not mean a flight from the world; rather, it lies in the effort to incarnate the Gospel in everyday life, in the…
- The obligation to earn one's bread by the sweat of one's brow also presumes the right to do so. A society in which this right…
- But responsibility likewise falls on the legislators who have promoted and approved abortion laws, and, to the extent that they have a say in the…
- When a parliamentary or social majority decrees that it is legal, at least under certain conditions, to kill unborn human life, is it not really…
- The drama of AIDS threatens not just some nations or societies, but the whole of humanity. It knows no frontiers of geography, race, age or…
- The film industry has become a universal medium exercising a profound influence on the development of people's attitudes and choices, and possessing a remarkable ability…
- Side by side with the miseries of underdevelopment...we find ourselves up against a form of superdevelopment, equally inadmissable. This superdevelopment consists in an excessive availability…
- Social justice cannot be attained by violence. Violence kills what it intends to create.
- You are priests, not social or political leaders. Let us not be under the illusion that we are serving the Gospel through an exaggerated interest…
- Condemning class struggle does not mean condemning every possible form of social conflict. Such conflicts inevitably arise and Christians must often take a position in…
- The obligation to earn one's bread presumes the right to do so. A society that denies this right cannot be justified, nor can it attain…
More Social Quotes
- The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the… — Hannah Arendt
- Stories in which the destruction of society occurs are explorations of social fears and issues that filmmakers, novelists, playwrights, painters have been… — J. J. Abrams
- Music is the social act of communication among people, a gesture of friendship, the strongest there is. — Malcolm Arnold
- Social media is called social media for a reason. It lends itself to sharing rather than horn-tooting. — Margaret Atwood
- I was once a graduate student in Victorian literature, and I believe as the Victorian novelists did, that a novel isn't simply… — 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
- It's frightening how easy it is to commit murder in America. Just a drink too much. I can see myself doing it.… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- As the most social apes, we inhabit a mirror-world in which every important relationship, whether with spouse, friend or child, shapes the… — Diane Ackerman
- The average Nigerian person has come to reconcile himself with the fact that his or her social progress remain essentially in his… — Ibrahim Babangida
- You don't see Indians in Hollywood films around which a story can revolve. As soon as we have a social presence in… — Amitabh Bachchan
- I am a woman with a calling for social struggle and public service. — Michelle Bachelet
- Chile has done a lot to rid itself of poverty, especially extreme poverty, since the return to democracy. But we still have… — Michelle Bachelet