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All Quotes Collection
"The oldest books are only just out to those who have not read them."
18
"The voice of the Lord is the voice of common sense, which is shared by all that is."
47
"The worst thing that can happen to a man is to lose his money, the next worst his health, the next worst his reputation."
50
"The only living works are those which have drained much of the author's own life into them."
16
"People are lucky and unlucky not according to what they get absolutely, but according to the ratio between what they get and what they have been led to expect."
15
"Priests are not men of the world; it is not intended that they should be; and a University training is the one best adapted to prevent their becoming so."
12
"Silence and tact may or may not be the same thing."
15
"The advantage of doing one's praising for oneself is that one can lay it on so thick and exactly in the right places."
50
"The healthy stomach is nothing if it is not conservative. Few radicals have good digestions."
20
"My mental faculties remained in suspended animation while I obeyed the orders of the higher-ups. This is typical with everyone in the military."
46
"War is a racket. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives."
War,
47
"Put no inscription over the grave, except the date of my birth and my death; and, wherever I am buried, let the funeral be perfectly private, with as few persons attending, and as little show and expense as possible."
20
"Priests have to have the right to say that a sin is a sin."
42
"We desecrated the traditional values, but new values didn't come along."
48
"The past was more Christian? At times perhaps, in others, though, no."
58
"The new soft totalitarianism that is advancing on the left wants to have a state religion It is an atheist, nihilistic religion - but it is a religion that is obligatory for all."
42
"The family has a social function and so it should be sustained."
47
"The family exists in order to allow women to have children and to have the protection of a male who takes care of them."
51
"Relativism should be confronted where it damages fundamental human rights, because we're not relativists if we believe that the human being should be at the centre of society and the rights of every human being should be respected."
49
"One needs to know what the hierarchy of values are from which one takes inspiration, and in a democratic society this is the subject of continuous democratic debate."
43
"On the other hand, I think that the family, the traditional family, has a fundamental social role, because it's there that children are born and the investment in children is the greatest investment a country can make. The benefits of this investment go to everyone."
48
"No, moral conscience is one thing, the law is another. We have to hold onto this difference."
48
"John Paul II, above all, managed to contain the huge mass of frustration, of hate that had accumulated in that region, in favour of a peaceful transition. This was, without doubt, something that changed European history."
41
"If you search for poverty, you'll find it, often in the family. Why? Because the family makes this great investment, from which we all benefit, but for which no-one helps. We have to point the spotlight on the family, and make political choices that sustain the family."
36
"I think the State shouldn't poke its nose into the sexual relations of consenting adults."
46
"I support non-discrimination for homosexuals, but I think, or at least I have the right to think - without saying whether I think it or not - I have the right to think, along with the catechism of the Catholic Church, that homosexuality is morally wrong."
61
"For Europe, the fall of Communism has to be taken into account, and the fact that in the fight against Communism the recovery of Europe's Christian roots was the driving force."
40
"I can think that you are mistaken, but I have to be ready to give my life to maintain your right to make mistakes. I have to, though, have the right to say that you're mistaken. This is the principal of the liberal society."
43
"That's possible, and in fact the legislation, the politics should graduate the advantages towards those who have children and give less to those who don't have children."
49
"That's what really makes great skating competitions. When you have two top skaters in good form giving superb performances."
41
"I was a stubborn cuss, and I made some mistakes."
54
"The difference was you worked for Nixon, and with Ford."
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