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Rocco Buttiglione

"The family has a social function and so it should be sustained."

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"Sometimes we're so concerned about giving our children what we never had growing up, we neglect to give them what we did have growing up."

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"Mothers care in volumes of tears and earnestness of prayers and a depth of emotion others cannot fathom."

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"So that is marriage, Lily thought, a man and a woman looking at a girl throwing a ball."

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"I always envisioned myself as traveling the ocean of life in a rowboat where my mother was one oar and my father, the other. Having two good, solid oars made rowing much easier."

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"I stumble and fall.I weep and struggle to rise.My mom feels it all."

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"One of the strongest loves I've ever witnessed is the love a mother has for her child."

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"All happy families are alike, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way."

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"Her maternal instinct told her Natasha had too much of something, and because of this she would not be happy."

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"Like all feelings felt for oneself, Mrs. Ramsay thought, it made one sad. It was so inadequate, what one could give in return; and what Rose felt was quite out of proportion to anything she actually was."

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"Oh, how terribly backwards, and yet sadly common, it is to sit scowling at family all the day long and then quickly put on a smile for strangers who drop by."

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"I think the State shouldn't poke its nose into the sexual relations of consenting adults."
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"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."
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"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."
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"We desecrated the traditional values, but new values didn't come along."
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"No, moral conscience is one thing, the law is another. We have to hold onto this difference."
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"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."
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"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."
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"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."
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"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."
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