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Society 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…
- Standards of conduct appropriate to civil society or the workings of a democracy cannot be purely and simply applied to the Church.
- 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…
- Islam has a total organization of life that is completely different from ours; it embraces simply everything,...There is a very marked subordination of woman to…
- We live in a society in which it seems that every space, every moment must be 'filled' with initiatives, activity, sound; often there is not…
- Children truly are the family's greatest treasure and most precious good. Consequently, everyone must be helped to become aware of the intrinsic evil of the…
- Material possessions in themselves are good. We would not survive for long without money, clothing, shelter and food. Yet if we refuse to share what…
- Society today is being fragmented by a way of thinking that is inherently short-sighted because it disregards the full horizon of truth - the truth…
- Society as a whole must defend the conceived child's right to life and the true good of the woman who can never, in any circumstances,…
- Today, the need to avoid confusing marriage with other types of unions based on weak love is especially urgent. It is only the rock of…
- The fundamental human right, the presupposition of every other right, is the right to life itself. This is true of life from the moment of…
- Authentic love is obviously something good. When we love we become most fully human. But people often consider themselves loving when actually they are possessive…
More Society Quotes
- The structure of apartheid is still rooted in the Haitian society. When you have apartheid, you don't see those behind the walls.… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. — Aristotle
- Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms. — Aristotle
- I believe that the whole idea of the consumer society is tottering. We've kept ourselves going by producing more and more goods,… — Paul Auster
- 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
- Every fundamentalist movement I've studied in Judaism, Christianity and Islam is convinced at some gut, visceral level that secular liberal society wants… — Karen Armstrong
- Yes, all fundamentalists feel that in a secular society, God has been relegated to the margin, to the periphery and they are… — Karen Armstrong
- In much of society, research means to investigate something you do not know or understand. — Neil Armstrong
- At one of the annual conventions of the American Society for Aesthetics much confusion arose when the Society for Anesthetics met at… — Rudolf Arnheim
- The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom. — Isaac Asimov
- When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that American society… — Isaac Asimov
- Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible. — Francis of Assisi